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FTCE Social Science 6–12:
Social Science – lecture
summary
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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
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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.
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FTCE Social Science 6–12:
Social Science – lecture
summary
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FTCE Social Science 6–12_ Social Science – lecture summary.pdf FTCE Social Science 6–12_ Social Science – lecture summary.pdf FTCE Social Science 6–12_ Social Science – lecture summary.pdf
,FTCE Social Science 6-12_ Social Science.pdf FTCE Social Science 6-12_ Social Science.pdf FTCE Social Science 6-12_ Social Science.pdf
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
FTCE Social Science 6-12_ Social Science.pdf FTCE Social Science 6-12_ Social Science.pdf FTCE Social Science 6-12_ Social Science.pdf
, FTCE Social Science 6-12_ Social Science.pdf FTCE Social Science 6-12_ Social Science.pdf FTCE Social Science 6-12_ Social Science.pdf
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.
FTCE Social Science 6-12_ Social Science.pdf FTCE Social Science 6-12_ Social Science.pdf FTCE Social Science 6-12_ Social Science.pdf
