MOUNT CARMEL COLLEGE OF CASIGURAN
3204 Casiguran Aurora
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
S.Y. 2021-2022
SECOND QUARTER – MODULE 2
DISCIPLINES AND IDEAS IN THE APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES
Functions of Applied Social Sciences
Name: ______________________________________________ Score: ________________________
Year&Section: _______________________________________ Teacher: Mr. Ted V. Marcelo
WEEK 3-4
The learners demonstrate understanding of:
Functions of applied social sciences
MELCs
Explain each of the functions of social sciences
EXPLORE
Directions: Answer the following activity to check what you remember about your previews lesson.
Explain the categories of new media.
Main Categories
of New Media
FIRM UP
FUNCTIONS OF APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES
Self-development
Becoming successful in life requires one’s ability to take charge of his or her personal development. Fiske
(2014) suggested that the development of oneself also encourages social belongingness, which consequently leads
to positive feelings and fosters healthy and lasting relationships.
Factors that affect or contribute to your personal development, according to Yena (2011) and Wallace
Masters (2000):
1. Communication skills
Your ability to communicate your ideas well is essential to the workplace or to any social setting.
Enhancing your ability to express yourself will help you become more efficient in your work and become more
competent to lead others. Verbal communication may include your skills in public speaking, in presenting details,
or simply in having one-on-one conversations with a friend or a colleague. Nonverbal communication, includes
your eye contact, gestures, and body language.
2. Time and Stress Management
Because stress is part and parcel of one’s daily living, time and stress management are essential factors to
self-development. It is important to take note that stress is needed for a person’s proper functioning. It motivates
you to work harder, and it challenges you to determine your strengths and weaknesses.
3. Developing Positive Attitudes
Attitude refers to a person’s disposition about certain life experiences. Just like any disease, attitudes may
be contagious for they may positively or negative influence another person. Unlike knowledge and skills, emotions
serve as a critical factor in the development of one’s attitudes.
Functions of Social Work
Social work and Self-development
Before you decide to become a social worker, you must first recognize whether you have the capacity to
relate to and counsel people who are in need of help. Taking a degree in social work may be helpful. Self-
awareness is important to those who would like to be trained for clinical practice. Students of social work must
develop themselves to be more self-reflective, because this attribute indicates clinical competence. An effectively
trained social work student is someone who is aware of his or her own feelings, attitudes, and relationships,
especially toward dealing with clients. Social work education involves learning psychodynamic theories, fostering
self-awareness in the context of both the academe and industry, and simulating experiences in the practice through
special educational opportunities in the form of video labs and observational experiences (Urdang, 2010).
Qualities of a Social Worker According to John (2012), some of the qualities every social worker must
possess include the following:
1. Empathy, or the ability to identify with or vicariously experience another person’s situation
2. Boundary setting, or the capacity to set boundaries and expectations and accept the limits of what can a social
worker accomplish during a specified period of time
3. Active listening, or the ability to listen carefully, ask pertinent questions, and retain verbally transmitted
information [so as to] establish trust, open doors, and discover valuable details about the individuals who seek help
in understanding their unique circumstances
4. Social perceptiveness, or sensitivity to body language, social cues, implications and cultural patterns of
behaviour, in short, the ability to “read between the lines”
5. Organization, or the ability to manage and prioritize the logistical aspects of the job to maximize the amount of
time on the schedule and to provide meaningful services to clients
6. Coordination, or the ability to coordinate communication and action among multiple parties to connect clients
with services
7. Cooperation, or the ability to negotiate, compromise, and work well with others to coordinate efforts required
in social work
8. Relaxation and decompression, or taking advantage of a social worker’s personal time by focusing on and
tending to his or her own needs and well-being as it is for that of the clients
Functions of Communication
The functionalist theory considers the media as “self-directing and selfcorrecting.” Media Tasks (Functions) in
Society according to McQuial (2005):
Information - Providing information about events and conditions in society and the world
- Indicating relations of power
- Facilitating innovation, adaptation, and progress
Correlation - Explaining, interpreting, and commenting on the meaning of events and information
- Providing support for established authority and norms
- Socializing
- Coordinating separate activities
- Consensus building
- Setting orders of priority and signaling relative status
Continuity - Expressing the dominant culture and recognizing subcultures and new cultural developments
- Forgiving and maintaining commonality of values
Entertainment - Providing amusement, diversion, and the means of relaxation
- Reducing social tension
Mobilization - Campaigning for societal objectives in the sphere of politics, war, economic development, work,
and sometimes religion
DEEPEN
Read the information very well then comprehend what you have read. Identify what is described in each item..
__________________1. Communication is an avenue to persuade people toward certain ideas.
__________________2. This track uses media and communication for creative expression, as manifested when
artists and photographers use visual mediums as their tools in the same way writers, poets,
and publishers use written mediums.
__________________3. A person with this kind of power have referent power when the person they are trying to
influence wants to be like them
__________________4. The ability to listen carefully, ask pertinent questions, and retain verbally transmitted
information [so as to] establish trust, open doors, and discover valuable details about the
individuals who seek help in understanding their unique circumstances.
__________________5. One of the useful theories of persuasion that every student of social work must be well-
aware.
__________________6. This vision will not only allow you to pursue your life goals, but it will also help you
anticipate the positive obstacles which you could encounter along the way.
__________________7. It refers to a person’s disposition about certain life experiences.
__________________8. It includes your eye contact, gestures, and body language.
__________________9. It is consistently reiterated that media and communication provides access to information
that is necessary for citizens to have informed choices rather than acting out of ignorance
or misinformation.
__________________10. These form of communication are designed to appeal to our needs to recreate, relax,
and be entertained.
TRANSFER
Directions: Answer the following questions. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
1. Do you think that media and communication are powerful enough to persuade people? Why or why not?
2. How is communication helpful in promoting public opinion through persuasion?
3. Do you consider the messages forwarded by news media to its audiences an absolute truth? Why or why not?
Explain your answer.
