Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
REGION IV-A CALABARZON
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF BACOOR CITY
SHS IN SAN NICHOLAS III, BACOOR CITY
San Nicolas III, City of Bacoor, Cavite
Name
Subject
Grade/Section:
Teacher
Disciplines and Ideas in the
Applied Social Sciences
ACTIVITY 1
INTRODUCTION TO THE DISCIPLINES
OF APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES
What I Need to Know
At the end of the module, the learner should be able to:
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develop a comprehensive definition of social science and applied
social sciences;
demonstrate an understanding of social sciences and applied
social sciences;
clarify the relationships between social sciences and applied
social sciences through poster; and
explain clearly about the work of social scientist and applied
social science.
What I Know
Activity No. 1
What comes to your mind when you read the phrase “disciplines of
applied social sciences’? In the space provided below, write down all your
ideas.
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What’s in
Activity No. 2
In the previous subject Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences (DISS),
when you are in Grade 11, you learned the nine different disciplines under
it.
Draw an object or an icon on the box below that best represent and describe
the nine disciplines. Label your work.
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What’s New
Activity No. 3
Look at the following list of subjects: history, political science, psychology,
sociology, anthropology, economics, geography, demography, linguistics,
counseling, social work, and communication.
1. To what cluster of science does this group of subjects belong?
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2. Which of the subjects mentioned belong to a subset that represents a
direct application of science to everyday life or have a clear focus on applied
social issues?
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Defining Social Sciences and Applied Social Sciences
The social sciences investigate human society and the different forces that
operate within it. The different disciplines of the social sciences look at
human societies in diverse perspectives and focus on a particular area of
expertise for analysis. These diverse fields examine how people interact and
develop culture. Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Geography,
Anthropology, Psychology, Demography, History and Linguistics are the
different branches of Social Sciences. These disciplines provide social
scientists with the relevant knowledge, tools and skills that can help them to
fully understand social phenomena.
Economics –studies the allocation of scarce resources and the production
and exchange of goods
and services.
Anthropology – scientific study of humans and their cultures in the past
and present times.
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History – systematic study of human past events in order to understand the
meaning, dynamics, and relationship of the causes and effects of events in
the development of societies.
Political Science – studies human behavior in relation to political systems,
governments, laws, and international relations.
Psychology – studies how human mind works in consonance with the body
to produce thoughts that lead to individual actions.
Sociology – systematic study of people’s behavior in groups. It understands
how and why people interact with each other and how they function as a
society or social subgroups.
Geography – study of the interaction between people and their
environments.
Demography – scientific study of human populations across time. It
examines the changes in population growth through the analysis of
statistics on birth, human movement , and morbidity, agedness and
mortality.
Linguistics – study of human language and speech that evolved as a
response to the changing nature of human languages.
The Applied Social Sciences, on the other hand, focuses on the practical
application in the real-life settings of the diverse theories, frameworks,
concepts and methodologies learned from the Social Sciences. Applied Social
Scientists can use his/her training in different real-life work settings. They
have diverse functions and careers where he/she can apply his learnings
and skills. There are three main career tracks for Applied Social Scientist.
These include (1) Counseling; (2) Social Work; and (3) Communications.
In summary, Social Sciences are more specific and focused on a distinct
facet of a social phenomenon while applied social sciences attempts to
focused on a distinct issue but use insights arising from various social
science disciplines. While social science explore broadly their distinct
disciplines, some of their input may easily become applied while others
remain theoretical. When social science theories, concepts, methods, and
findings gain application to problems identified in a wider society, then
applied social science is achieved.
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Activity No. 4
Instruction : As you read the lesson, fill up the data retrieval chart.
Data Retrieval Chart About the Main Concerns
and Focus of the Social Sciences
Discipline
Main Concern and Focus as a Discipline
Social Science
History
Anthropology
Economics
Sociology
Geography
Demography
Political Science
Linguistics
Activity No. 5
Instruction : Analyze the photos and answer the question below. Write your
answer on the space provided.
How does the photo explain the nature and
significance of social science disciplines?
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What is counseling? Why do you think counseling is
considered a discipline of the applied social sciences?
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Why is Social Work considered a discipline of the
applied social science? How do social rorkers help
members of society?
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Why is communication studies considered a discipline
of the applied social sciences?
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What is it
COUNSELING
Counseling is one of the fields of the Applied Social Sciences. As an
application of the Social sciences, counseling provides guidance, help, and
support to individuals who are distraught by a diverse set of problems in
their lives. Through counseling, professional guidance is given to an
individual and this is done by applying psychological methods like collection
of case history data, personal interviews and aptitude tests. Counseling can
be done by guidance counselors, life coaches, career counselors, and
personal growth counselors.
Guidance counseling and life coaching are applications of the Social
Sciences and in these professions, expert help are given to individuals who
needed guidance or advice pertaining to their business successes, general
conditions and personal life transitions, relationships, and career. A life
coach analyzes the present condition of the client, discovers different
obstacles or challenges that a client faces and provides a certain course of
actions to make the client’s life better.
Career counseling is needed by people who are in the process of entering the
job market, searching for possible career change or those wanting career
advancement. Personal growth counseling concentrates on the evaluation of
the different aspects of a client’s life.
A good personal growth counselor take time to integrate the client’s past and
present to develop one’s future plans and goals in life. In this form of
counseling, the practitioner incorporates the techniques and approaches of
life and career counseling with investigative work.
SOCIAL WORK
Social work is another social activity of the applied social sciences. Through
social work people enhance their skills and ability so that they can use their
own resources and of the community to resolve social problems but it also
addresses social issues such as poverty, unemployment, and domestic
violence. Social workers plays different roles and duties in society. They can
be involved in advocacy campaign and work counseling, issue and conflict
mediation, and research. They can also serves as educators, case managers,
facilitators and agents of community change.
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COMMUNICATION STUDIES
The applied social sciences provides adequate training for careers in the
communication industry. One example of careers in the communication
industry is in the field of mass media. In the news and current affairs
department of major televisions and radio networks, for example,
practitioners stress the importance of balance, objective, truthful and
creative rendering of the news and other important events as they actually
happened. Practitioners in the applied social sciences have enough training
in this area because they are equipped with theories and concepts about
communication that allows them to understand and inform the public about
the social, political, cultural and economic realities. People’s viewing and
consuming behavior and patterns are emphasized in this multidisciplinary
field through the application of knowledge and methodologies learned from
the field of economics, sociology, anthropology, and psychology.
What’s More
Performance Task No. 1
Using a graphic organizer, write the functions of each of the applied social
sciences you have learned in this lesson, and show how they affect you as
an individual and the community as a whole.
Rubric :
Criteria
5
Strong
4
Moderately
Strong
1. The graphic organizer’s
lines, boxes, and text are
neat and legible
2. The graphic organizer
presents the information
in a manner that is easy
to follow
3. The form in which the
graphic organizer portrays
the information is
appropriate to the
relationships being
represented.
4. Overall, the graphic
organizer represents the
student’s full potential.
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3
Average
2
Moderately
Poor
1
Poor
What I Can Do
Performance Task No. 2
Make a poster that explains the intersection and differences of the social
sciences and the applied social sciences. Use the blank sheet after the
rubric. The poster must explain through drawing the following:
1. The different fields of the social sciences and the applied social
sciences
2. The differences of the social sciences and applied social sciences
3. The intersection of the concerns of the social sciences and the applied
social sciences
4. The relevance of the social sciences in understanding individual and
group members of society.
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RUBRIC:
Criteria
Content
Presentati
on
Aesthetics
Excellent
Very Good
The poster has
a very clear
message.
Clearly
explained the
intersection and
differences of
the social
sciences and
applied social
sciences.
It has address
all the
questions/topic
s that needs to
be explained
visually in the
poster.
The poster has
a clear
message, it has
clearly
explained the
intersection
and differences
of the social
sciences and
the applied
social sciences.
It has
addressed
three
questions/topic
s that needs to
be explained
visually in the
poster
Good
The poster
has a
vagued
message,
did not
explain the
intersection
and
differences
of the social
sciences
and applied
social
sciences. It
has
addressed
only two
questions/
topics that
needs to be
explained
visually in
the poster
Very clean and
Poster is
The poster
organized poster organized.
presentation
presentation
Message is
is organized
Message is very evident but it is bit it did not
evident and
partially
show a clear
clearly
presented
message
presented
Poster is very
Poster is
Poster used
colorful and
colorful and
color but it
visually
visually
is not
attractive
attractive
visually
attractive
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Needs
Improvement
The poster
has a vagued
message, did
not explain
the
intersection
and
differences of
the social
sciences and
applied social
It has
addressed
only one
question/
topic that
needs to be
explained
visually in
the poster
The poster is
unorganized
and did not
show any
message
Poster is
poorly done
and it is not
visually
attractive
PERFORMANCE TASK 2: POSTER
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What I Have Learned
Let’s do the 3-2-1!
What are the 3 things that you have learned in the lesson?
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What are the 2 things that you found interesting while studying the lesson?
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What question do you still have about the lesson?
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Assessment
Multiple Choice
Instruction: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.
1. Studies the optimum allocation of scarce resources and how individuals
interact within the social structure to address questions regarding the
production and exchange of goods and services.
a. Political Science
b. Geography
c. Social Work
d. Economics
2. A discipline that provides guidance, help, and support to individuals
through the application of psychological methods that includes case
history data, personal interviews, and aptitude tests.
a. Social Work
b. Counseling
c. Demography
d. Statistics
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3. Field of study where practitioners help individuals, families, groups, and
communities enhance people skills and ability to use their own
respources and that of the community to resolve social and community
problems.
a. Life Coach
b. Social Work
c. Communication Studies
d. Journalism
4. Studies how people and groups experience the world through various
emotions, ideas, and in the different conscious states.
a. Sociology
b. Economics
c. Psychology
d. Political Science
5. Field of study that is focused on the use and application of the different
concepts, theoretical models, and theories of the social science
disciplines to help understand society and the different problems and
issues it faces.
a. Social Sciences
b. Natural Sciences
c. Applied Social Sciences
d. Behavioral Sciences
6. Career opportunity that will mostly need an applied social science
practitioner.
a. Journalism
b. Engineering
c. Computer Science
d. Architecture
7. Field of social sciences.
a. Counseling
b. Social Work
c. Communication Studies
d. Political Science
8. Main discipline or professional track of the applied social sciences.
a. Political Science
b. Guidance Counseling
c. Demography Study
d. Sociological Research
9. People needs it in the process of entering in the job market.
a. Life Coach
b. Personal Growth Counseling
c. Career Counseling
d. Guidance Counselor
10. Concentrates on the evaluation on the different aspects of a client’s life.
a. Life Coach
b. Personal Growth Counseling
c. Career Counseling
d. Guidance Counselor
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Additional Activities
Answer the following questions briefly.
Rubric:
5
Answer is
comprehensive,
accurate and
complete. Key
ideas are clearly
stated, explained,
and well
supported.
4
3
2
Answer is
accurate and
complete. Key
points are
stated and
supported.
Answer is not
comprehensive or
completely stated.
Key points are
addressed, but
not well
supported.
Answer is
partial or
incomplete.
Key points are
not clear.
Questions not
adequately
answered.
1
Answer is
not related
to the
question.
1. Why are social sciences relevant in understanding the diverse conditions
and problems of society?
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2. What is the importance of applied social sciences in understanding
individual, group, and organizational issue and concerns?
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3. How would you compare the functions and roles of social scientist and
an applied social science practitioner? Give examples to explain your
answer.
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4. How do you reconcile the main concerns of social sciences and the applied
social sciences?
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5. Explain why the following are considered as subfield of the applied social
sciences?
a. Advertising
b. Journalism
C. Counseling
D. Social Work
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References :
Dela Cruz, Arleigh Ross D. (2016).Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social
Sciences, Phoenix Publishing House, Inc., Quezon Avenue, Quezon City.
Sampa, Elias M.,(2017)Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences,
Rex Book Store Inc., Quezon City.
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