Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences

A social science that deals with the optimum allocation of scarce resources among its alternatives to satisfy the unlimited wants and needs of the people.

• Economics

• Geography

• Sociology

• Demography

It is the systematic study of human language that lies at the crossroad of the humanities and the social sciences.

• Political Science

• Linguistics

• History

• Anthropology

Which concepts are included under linguistics?

(You may choose more than one.)

• Morphology

• Public Policy

• Phonology

• Syntax

The study of size, territorial distribution, and composition of population.

• Demography

• Anthropology

• Geography

• Economics

This focuses on individual and small organizations in the system of allocating resources.

• Social Demography

• Semantics

• Macroeconomics

• Microeconomics

__________ is the study of human behavior and mental processes. This also deals with the minds and personality of an individual.

Who is the Father of History?

• Aristotle

• Herodotus

• Plato

• Sigmund Freud

"Man is a social and political animal."

Explain this quote by Aristotle.

A branch of Anthropology that involves the study of earlier cultures and ways of life by retrieving and examining the material remains (relics) of previous human society.

• Linguistic Anthropology

• Archeology

• Physical Anthropology

• Cultural Anthropology

__________ is the study of the Earth’s surface, investigating the physical structure of the Earth, including its terrain and its climates.