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REVIEW: DISS  SOCIAL SCIENCES refers to studying society and the interaction of people living in society.  SOCIAL SCIENCES is the study of human society and the different forces at work within them  ANTHROPOLOGY study of humankind Herodotus Franz Boas - Cultu...

REVIEW: DISS  SOCIAL SCIENCES refers to studying society and the interaction of people living in society.  SOCIAL SCIENCES is the study of human society and the different forces at work within them  ANTHROPOLOGY study of humankind Herodotus Franz Boas - Cultural Relativism  ECONOMICS study of efficient allocation of scarce resources to satisfy our unlimited human needs and wants four factors of production Adam Smith  GEOGRAPHY studies the interaction between the natural environment and the people living in it Eratosthenes  HISTORY study of recorded past Herodotus  POLITICAL SCIENCES study of politics, power, and government Aristotle  LINGUISTICS discipline that studies the nature of language through an examination of the formal properties of natural language, grammar, and the process of language acquisiition Sophists  SOCIOLOGY study of human society, how people relate to each other and how they work in the larger society Auguste Comte  PSYCHOLOGY scientific study of behavior and mental processes Wilhelm Wundt  DEMOGRAPHY study of human population John Graunt  SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM It focuses on the different meanings individuals attach to objects, people, and interactions.  SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM Gestures George Herbert Mead self: self-awareness, self- discovery  PROCESS OF SELF-DISCOVERY Preparatory Stage Play Stage Game Stage Generalized Other  RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY The essence of rational choice theory is ‘when faced with several courses of action, people, usually do what they believe is likely to have the best overall outcome  COST AND BENEFITS When RCT use in Economics, they use a logical decision-making process that takes into account the costs and benefits of various options, weighing the options against each other. VARIABLES THAT AFFECTS DECISIONS MAKING COST INFORMATION PRESTIGE TIME  GAME THEORY Game Theory provides tools for analyzing situations in which parties, called players, make decisions that are interdependent.  CRITICISMS Inadequate Information Cognitive Limitation Time Consistency Social Pressure PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY He theorized three levels of consciousness and three components of the personality structures. Sigmund Freud THREE LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS Conscious Mind Preconscious Mind Unconscious Mind  THREE COMPONENTS OF PERSONALITY STRUCTURE ID Ego Superego HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM It conceptualizes mutual dependence between human and environmental system responsibility - sustainability