FTCE Social Science 6-12: Social
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Social Science - ANSWER✔✔ - 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 - ANSWER✔✔ - "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 - ANSWER✔✔ - branch of political science
- examines civic affairs and the rights and duties of citizenship
- focuses on the role of citizens in a government
Economics - ANSWER✔✔ - 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 - ANSWER✔✔ Concerned with the pedagogy of teaching and learning.
Geography - ANSWER✔✔ - 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 - ANSWER✔✔ - 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 - ANSWER✔✔ - 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 - ANSWER✔✔ - 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 - ANSWER✔✔ - 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
Thematic Strands of Social Science - ANSWER✔✔ -
http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/strands#I
1. Culture
2. Time, continuity, and change
3. People, places, and environments
Science Questions And Answers With
Verified Solutions Already Passed Rated
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Social Science - ANSWER✔✔ - 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 - ANSWER✔✔ - "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 - ANSWER✔✔ - branch of political science
- examines civic affairs and the rights and duties of citizenship
- focuses on the role of citizens in a government
Economics - ANSWER✔✔ - 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 - ANSWER✔✔ Concerned with the pedagogy of teaching and learning.
Geography - ANSWER✔✔ - 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 - ANSWER✔✔ - 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 - ANSWER✔✔ - 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 - ANSWER✔✔ - 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 - ANSWER✔✔ - 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
Thematic Strands of Social Science - ANSWER✔✔ -
http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/strands#I
1. Culture
2. Time, continuity, and change
3. People, places, and environments
