1. What do you think the term social science means?
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What do you think the term social science means?

2. Social Science
Social Sciences are the disciplines that study human social behavior or institutions and functions of human society in a scientific manner.

3. Psychology
Studies behavior and thinking of organisms.

4. Anthropology
Studies and compares past and present cultures.

5. Social Psychology
Study of how social environments affect an individuals behavior and personality.

6. Economics
Study of choices people make to satisfy needs and wants.

7. Political Sciences
Study of Government institutions and their functions in society.

8. History
Study of past events, cultures, behavior and institutions.

9. Sociology
Studies human society and social behavior.

10. Sociological Imagination
Coined by C. Wright Mills
“The capacity to range from the most impersonal and remote topics to the most intimate features of the human self, and to see the relationship between the two.”
Assignment – Create a poster or cartoon describing sociological imagination. Write a definition in you own words on the back. (pg. 5)

11. Why is sociology a social science?
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Why is sociology a social science?