People may know Social Studies and Science Studies by the topics and what they basically learn at school. That is true. But behind those topics, there is quite a lot of history to learn.
Social Studies:
Social Studies not only covers Geography, History, Sociology, Humanities and Economics. Social Studies represents a class where we are learning what and how the world is the way it is, other than being just a choice in the streams about society and focusing on a social perspective. It is a study of a society and core aspects in it that enable society to function. Most of the learning is about life cycles, a study on how the world works, human behavior and our life cycle. Social Studies is a field of study that discusses society along with its system. A study about interactions among humans, from time to time, includes the results we get after those interactions. It is educating people to analyze society and its change and developments. In a Social Studies class, we can learn about human behavior and related phenomena. Also, how things are the way they are: that is taught in a Social Studies class. How things change, how humans interact, what it is, what that is. Social Studies requires high logical and critical thinking, inquiry, and a knowledgeable mind and problem-solving skill. It is a field combined of Social Science; it contains materials from the social sciences. However, the portion or the amount of materials of both subjects are different because Social Studies focuses more on the development and needs of students.
The focus of the IPS study is various human activities in various dimensions of social life, in accordance with human characteristics as social beings (homosocius).
Oemar Hamalik (1992) suggested that Social Studies is still elementary and are merely fundamental. At a higher level
of education, this knowledge has evolved and developed, because Social Studies that are studied on a higher level are called something else, which is "Social Science". According to Muhammad Numan Soematri (2001), "Social Studies education is social sciences, state ideology and other scientific disciplines and related social problems that are organized and presented scientifically and psychologically for the purpose of education at the primary and secondary education level". Which means Social Studies is a study that allows knowledge of analysis of problems in organizations or groups that demand psychological knowledge.
Science Studies:
Science Studies is a study that many people think it is all about science and mathematical calculations. Well, you're not wrong. I am not saying that scientific studies have more calculations but both studies will have calculations; Science Studies will use those calculations more effectively than Social Studies. It is a study that allows us to see the world using the lenses of math and science. Seeing it through math and science allows us to predict the future through theories. It is a field of study that discusses how the world works from its smallest particle and biggest particle.
It is a study of nature around us and beyond it. We can observe the physical behavior and nature of the world. We observe and analyze data from experiments, to predict change or development of the object or phenomenon.
Carin and Sund (1993) define Science Studies as "systematic and regularly organized knowledge, universal (universal), and in the form of a collection of data from observations and experiments".
Similarities:
Science Studies is education that teaches people to observe and predict, using theories and formulas given and passed down from generation through generation. Seeing the future by seeing how things develop inside and outside. Seeing the big picture, not only the earth and its being but the world and the universe surrounding it.
Both studies require a commitment to learning those topics. They both need curiosity since if we want to study, we need to have a desire to learn. Both have differences and similarities. It is not a competition to see which one is the best and which one is smarter than the other.
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