Chapter 23 Section 3World History 3

Social Sciences in the Industrial Age

Mr. Love

Notes – game day

Rise of the Social Sciences

The ____ ____ are those branches of knowledge that scientifically study people as members of society.

Social Sciences IN the 1800’s the study of politics became known as

_______ ______. Political Science – scholars attempting to study law

and politics as any scientist would study a science.

Rise of the Social Sciences

Another social science, _______, had already been developed by in the work of Adam Smith and others.

Economics – What is economics? How has the study of history changed over the

years? Focus less on nationalism and began to use primary

documents to find the “truth” about ordinary and important figures alike.

Archeology, Anthropology, and Sociology

_______ is the study of human culture through artifacts people leave behind.

Archeology _______ is the study of human relationships in society. Sociology _____ _____ was one of the founders of sociology Auguste Comte – argued that society, like nature, operated by

certain laws. _____ _____ used evolution as the basis for studying human

communities, coining the phrase, “survival of the fittest”. Herbert Spencer

Archeology, Anthropology, and Sociology

Spencer’s theory became known as _____ _____. According to this theory, people of power and wealth had gained this status because of their superior abilities.

Social Darwinism

Psychology

_____ studies the mind and human behavior. Psychology ____ ____ discovered the conditioned response in

animals and applied it to humans. Ivan Pavlov – what did he do? In the early 1900’s, _____ _____ introduced the idea

of the unconscious as a determining factor in human behavior.

Sigmund Freud

Psychology

This Process of revealing and analyzing unconscious motivations was called _________.

Psychoanalysis He also founded the modern _______, the

study and treatment of mental illness. Psychiatry