FTCE SOCIAL SCIENCE 6-12 EXAM SCRIPT
Question and Answer 2026 | Complete
Study Guide & Review Pack | Grade A+
• Social Science -✓✓- a collection of disciplines that concern themselves with and
study human aspects of the world and draw upon empirical, quantitative, and
qualitative methods to understand it
- each borrows from one another
• Anthropology -✓✓- "the most scientific of the humanities, and the most
humanistic of the sciences"
- from human origins to contemporary life; all facets of society and culture,
including tools, techniques, traditions, language, beliefs, kinships, values, social
institutions, economic mechanisms, cravings for beauty/art, and struggles for
prestige
- impacts of humans on other humans
- four major fields
1. archaeological anthropology
2. biological anthropology
3. linguistic anthropology
4. sociocultural anthropology
• Civics -✓✓- branch of political science
- examines civic affairs and the rights and duties of citizenship
- focuses on the role of citizens in a government
• Economics -✓✓- studies how people choose to use limited or scarce resources
to obtain maximum satisfaction of unlimited wants
- production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
- macro: economy as as whole
- micro: individual parts
• Education -✓✓Concerned with the pedagogy of teaching and learning.
, • Geography -✓✓- study of earth's surface - climate, topography, vegetation, and
population
- spatial discipline; how space is organized
- four main branches
1. human geography
2. physical geography
3. regional geography
4. topical/systematic geography
• History -✓✓- derived from "historia" (Greek), means "information" or "an
inquiry designed to elicit truth"
- study of political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of the past through the
sue of material, oral, and written sources
- difference avenues of study: class, gender, race, etc.
• Political Science -✓✓- study of the principles of government, the manner in
which government conducts itself, how we identify ourselves as citizens of a
particular nation, how we participate in our political structure and how it affects
us
- reveal relationships underlying political events and conditions
• Sociology -✓✓- study of human interaction, specifically how groups influence
individual values, norms, and sanctions
- range of human interaction -> two people to nations to corporations
- especially interested in customs, traditions, and values that emerge from group
experience and in the way the groups are affects by the customs, traditions, and
values
- tend to draw heavily from anthropology and psychology
• Psychology -✓✓- scientific and systematic study of mental processes and/or
behavior
- study directly observable behavior (talking, eating, acting in a certain way) and
things not readily observed (dreams, thinking, emotions, physiology)
- variety of subfields including clinical, counseling, school, industrial-
organizational, experimental, social, developmental, and psychometric
Question and Answer 2026 | Complete
Study Guide & Review Pack | Grade A+
• Social Science -✓✓- a collection of disciplines that concern themselves with and
study human aspects of the world and draw upon empirical, quantitative, and
qualitative methods to understand it
- each borrows from one another
• Anthropology -✓✓- "the most scientific of the humanities, and the most
humanistic of the sciences"
- from human origins to contemporary life; all facets of society and culture,
including tools, techniques, traditions, language, beliefs, kinships, values, social
institutions, economic mechanisms, cravings for beauty/art, and struggles for
prestige
- impacts of humans on other humans
- four major fields
1. archaeological anthropology
2. biological anthropology
3. linguistic anthropology
4. sociocultural anthropology
• Civics -✓✓- branch of political science
- examines civic affairs and the rights and duties of citizenship
- focuses on the role of citizens in a government
• Economics -✓✓- studies how people choose to use limited or scarce resources
to obtain maximum satisfaction of unlimited wants
- production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
- macro: economy as as whole
- micro: individual parts
• Education -✓✓Concerned with the pedagogy of teaching and learning.
, • Geography -✓✓- study of earth's surface - climate, topography, vegetation, and
population
- spatial discipline; how space is organized
- four main branches
1. human geography
2. physical geography
3. regional geography
4. topical/systematic geography
• History -✓✓- derived from "historia" (Greek), means "information" or "an
inquiry designed to elicit truth"
- study of political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of the past through the
sue of material, oral, and written sources
- difference avenues of study: class, gender, race, etc.
• Political Science -✓✓- study of the principles of government, the manner in
which government conducts itself, how we identify ourselves as citizens of a
particular nation, how we participate in our political structure and how it affects
us
- reveal relationships underlying political events and conditions
• Sociology -✓✓- study of human interaction, specifically how groups influence
individual values, norms, and sanctions
- range of human interaction -> two people to nations to corporations
- especially interested in customs, traditions, and values that emerge from group
experience and in the way the groups are affects by the customs, traditions, and
values
- tend to draw heavily from anthropology and psychology
• Psychology -✓✓- scientific and systematic study of mental processes and/or
behavior
- study directly observable behavior (talking, eating, acting in a certain way) and
things not readily observed (dreams, thinking, emotions, physiology)
- variety of subfields including clinical, counseling, school, industrial-
organizational, experimental, social, developmental, and psychometric
