Social+Sciences

Human Sciences

__Definitions:__

- The study of development, behaviour and interaction of human society - It seeks to develop and refine knowledge about human [|social activity], often with the goal of applying such knowledge to the pursuit of social welfare
 * Sociology**

- The study of humanity; cultural, social and physical anthropology. - Includes history - Homo sapiens - Evolution - Cultural influences
 * Anthropology**

- The scientific study of the human mind - Its immediate goal is to understand behavior and mental processes - Psychologists attempt to understand the role of [|mental functions] in individual and [|social behavior]
 * Psychology**

- Study of the human behaviour and the distribution of resources in society. - Aims to explain how different economies work - How to distribute and use resources efficiently
 * Economics**

__Methods of inquiry__

- interviews - group discussions - observation & reflection - [|Applied anthropology] - [|Ethnography] and [|Ethnology] - [|Participant observation] - [|Qualitative data] - [|Cultural relativism] - Quantitative data - Surveys - Various texts, pictures and other materials

The most important things I did this weekend:

1) Badminton 2) Math IA, homework 3) Getting rest

I chose number 1 because badminton is my passion, and what motivated me was to winning the tournament because last year we got bronze, and this year we were determined to get either silver or gold. Math IA is equally important but I had Friday to finish it off as I did most of it before the weekends.

- The diversity and many aspects of sociology is a scientific advantage - Researchers are to seek innovative approaches and innovative explanations of the social events that they consider - Trying to make the discipline by using a paradigm of research - Applies to all researches - Not all approaches are right or exact, but having a large sum of it (data) is better than nothing - A mixed portfolio of different strategies is better - I agree with the idea because we can get closer to the answer of the changing world if we do this

What rule will you violate?

Choose 2:

1. Linguistic

- I will stop shouting at my brothers whenever they annoy me

2. Behaviorial a.) personal (habit)

- talk to yourself out loud

It was challenging, because it was a very unusual for me and I am not the sort of person who talks out loud in general. While doing it, some people thought it was weird but I kept doing it because I was comfortable around them, so it really didn't matter as much.

b.) social

- Say hello to everyone I see in school

What made you uncomfortable?

What was the normative behaviour you challenged? Who and what defines this rule? What wakes the rule fixed or relative?

How does this activity affect your perspective of understanding or defining knowledge in the human sciences?

Natural Sciences Human Sciences Similarites - Both use theories to try to understand the world - Methods of approaching the task ( experimental)

Differences

- Written rules are studied and analysed - More about influences - Can have different solution that are arguable - Focuses on human interactions - Controllable variables - Variables more difficult to control and analysed