1. Topic: What is Social Studies?

2. Social Studies The study of the variety of human relationships
the study of man’s life
Relationships in Social Studies:
social, political, economic, cultural, environmental
(in the past and the present)

3. Branches of Social Studies
1) Geography
[the study of the earth]
Examples:
Cultural, Human, and Physical
2) Anthropology
[the study of man’s origin, physical characteristics, and culture]
Examples:
Archaeology

4. Branches of Social Studies
3) Sociology
[the study of the way people live and work together]
4) Political Science
[the study of the theory and practice of government]
Examples:
U.S. Govt., politics, local govt.

5. Branches of Social Studies
5) Economics
[the study of the production, exchange, and the consumption of goods and services]
6) History
[the study of man’s recorded past]
Examples:
American History, Georgia History, World History, family history
***Psychology – the study of an individual’s behavior