What is Social Science

Social Science - Is a discipline to understanding human behaviour

What is Social Science

Discipline involves research, data collection and analysis. Many social scientists also apply their research to help solve social problems. They have challenging jobs because they study extremely complex phenomena that are often subject to multiple interpretations. The effectiveness of social scientists is demonstrated in the quality of their research.

What is Social ScienceThe Origins of Social Sciences

Some people might believe that human/groups/societies act the way they do for very simple reasons.

But most reasons are very complex with manydifferent reasons and influences.

What is Social Science

The social science way of seeing the world will give you new insights and perspectives and make you question many things/ideas you have taken for granted.

Just as gravity existed before the science of physics and diseases existed before the development of medicine, human behaviour existed before the advent of social science.

What is Social Science

•The social sciences were created as a result of the Age of Enlightenment in the 1700s

•Reason and logic became the cornerstones of this period

•Philosophers like Immanuel Kant, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Rousseau criticized ignorance, intolerance, superstitions and political oppression.

What is Social Science

•Many important scientific discoveries were made during this time • -Issac Newton, Universal Law of Gravity

•Authors and thinkers believed that if reason and science could be used to discover laws of nature, then they could be used to discover laws about humans and their behaviours

•Scientific observation became the basis for the science of social behaviour- the social sciences of Anthropology, Psychology and Sociology