Grade 11 St.

Augustine Humanities and Social Sciences

Quarter 1 TOPICS
Week 1 1. EMERGENCE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- Defining Social Sciences as the study of society
Week 2 2. Introducing the disciplines within the Social Sciences
- Anthropology
- Economics
- Geography
- History
3. Introducing the disciplines within the Social Sciences
Week 3 - Linguistics
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Sociology and Demography
Week 4 4. DOMINANT APPROACHES AND IDEAS
- Structural-Functionalism
- Marxism
- Symbolic
Week 5 5. DOMINANT APPROACHES AND IDEAS
-Psychoanalysis
- Rational Choice
- Institutionalism
Quarter 2 TOPICS
Week 1 1. DOMINANT APPROACHES AND IDEAS
- Feminist Theory
- Hermeneutical Phenomenology
Week 2 - Human-Environment Systems
2. INDIGENIZING THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Week 3 - Filipino Social Thinkers
- Institute of Philippine Culture’s study on Philippine values
Week 4 3. INDIGENIZING THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- Sikolohiyang Pilipino
Week 5 - Pantayong Pananaw
4. SOCIAL SCIENCES IN THE REAL WORLD
- Professions from Social Sciences
5. SOCIAL SCIENCES IN THE REAL WORLD
- Applications and intersections of the approaches in addressing social
problem
 Anthropology
• Anthropology refers to the study of humans. As a social
science discipline, it examines all aspects of human life and
culture. It seeks to understand human origins and
adaptation, and the diversity of cultures and worldviews.
• In its attempt to study the various dimensions of man's
existence and behavior, it tends to generate many
specialized branches.
• There are 4 types of Anthropology, the fifth one namely
Applied Anthropology is the application of the study of the
four different types of anthropology.
• Social-cultural Anthropology.
• Physical (Biological) Anthropology.
• Archaeological Anthropology.
• Linguistic Anthropology.
• Applied Anthropology
Socio-Cultural Anthropology
• Branch of anthropology concerned with the study
and comparison of human cultures.
• Inspired by the idea of evolution after the
Darwin's publication of the Origin of Species.
- Economic Anthropology:
- Political Anthropology:
- Psychological Anthropology:
- Ecological Anthropology:
- Ethno-archaeology
- Anthropology of Religion
 Physical (Biological) Anthropology.
It is a branch of Anthropology which attempts
to explore human mystery related to their origin,
differentiation, diversities and distributions. With the
advancement of genetically sciences, it becomes more
and more biology oriented, and by virtue of it, its area
of study got considerable extension. By considering
the whole situations, it can be divided into the
following sub-branches:
C. Archaeological Anthropology
This branch of knowledge attempts to trace
the origin, growth and development of culture in
the past. By past we meant the period before
history when man had not acquired the
capabilities of language, not merely to speak but
also to write in order to record the story of his
life.
• Linguistic anthropology studies the nature of
human languages in the context of those cultures
that developed them. Scholars in the field seek
to understand the social and cultural foundations
of language itself, while exploring how social and
cultural formations are grounded in linguistic
practices.
• Linguistic anthropologists study the ways in
which people negotiate, contest, and reproduce
cultural forms and social relations through
language. They examine the ways in which
language provides insights into the nature and
evolution of culture and human society.
• Economics is a branch of social science that
studies the production, distribution, exchange,
and consumption of goods and services. The
term may also refer to the financial aspects of
concepts such as “the economics of managing
businesses.
• It deals with the optimum allocation of scarce
resources among its alternatives to satisfy the
unlimited human wants and needs of the
people. Economists study the ways individuals
and groups allocate resources to satisfy needs
and wants.
• Microeconomics focuses on how individual
consumers and firm make decisions; these
individuals can be a single person, a household,
a business/organization or a government
agency.
• Microeconomics tries to explain how people
respond to changes in price and why they
demand at particular price levels.
• Microeconomics tries to explain how and why
different goods are valued differently, how
individuals make financial decisions, and how
individuals best trade, coordinate and
cooperate with one another.
Branches of Economics
The study of economics is generally broken down into two disciplines.

• Macroeconomics studies an overall economy on

both a national and international level. Its focus
can include a distinct geographical region, a
country, a continent, or even the whole world.
• Topics studied include foreign trade, government
fiscal and monetary policy, unemployment rates,
the level of inflation and interest rates, the
growth of total production output as reflected by
changes in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP),
and business cycles that result in expansions,
booms, recessions, and depressions.
GEOGRAPHY
• Geography is the science of place. It is the social
science that studies the distribution and
arrangement of all elements of the earth’s
surface.
• Geography studies not only the surface of the
earth but also the location and distribution of its
physical as well as cultural features, the patterns
that they form, and the interrelation of these
things as they affect people. It deals especially
with the relationship between the environment
of the earth’s surface and humans, which
involves both physical and cultural geographic
features.
• History is a study of the past, principally how it
relates to humans. It describes or narrates and
analyses human activities in the past and the
changes that these had undergone. In its
broadest sense, history is the totality of all past
events. However, a more realistic limitation of
its area of inquiry would be ‘the known past.’
History deals with events which “have
happened among mankind, including an
account of the rise and fall of nations, as well as
of other great changes which have affected the
political and social condition of the human
race.”
Due to the multitude of areas of study in
history, this discipline has diversified to provide
a more objective approach to specific areas
through methods and procedures that adapt to
the needs of specific knowledge such as;
• Military history
• History of Religion
• Social history
• Cultural history
• Diplomatic history
 Military history refers to warfare, strategies,
battles, weapons, and combat psychology. The "new
military history“ since the 1970s has been more
concerned with soldiers than with generals, with
psychology rather than tactics and with the wider
impact of war on society and culture.

The history of religion refers to the written

record of human religious feelings, thoughts, and
ideas.
The history of religion has been a major theme
for secular and religious historians for centuries, and
continues to be taught in seminaries and academia.
• Social history is the field that includes the history of
ordinary people and their strategies and institutions to
deal with life.
• In its "golden age“ it was a major growth field in
the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and is still
well represented in departments of history.
• The "old“ social history, before the 1960s, was an
assortment of themes without a central theme, and
often included political movements, such as
populism, that were "social“ in the sense of being
outside the elite system.
• Social history contrasts with political history,
intellectual history, and the history of great men.
• Cultural history replaced social history as the
dominant form in the 1980s and 1990s. It often
combines the approaches of anthropology and
history to examine language, popular cultural
traditions, and cultural interpretations of historical
experience.
• It examines the narrative records and descriptions
of knowledge, customs, and past arts of a group of
people.
• Cultural history includes the study of art in society
as well as the study of images and human visual
production (iconography).
• Diplomatic history focuses on relations between
nations, mainly with respect to diplomacy and
the causes of wars and more recently, the causes
of peace and human rights.
• It usually presents the views of the foreign
office, and long-term strategic values ​as the
driving force of continuity and change in history.