The Role of the Social Science Department in a Cohesive Society

This report delves into the multifaceted roles of the Social Science Department, emphasizing its significance in understanding human behavior and societal dynamics. It highlights how social sciences provide knowledge, mentorship, and guidelines for informed decision-making in a diverse world, upholding values like individuality, democracy, and equality to maintain social order. The report explores how social sciences relate human behavior to society, offering insights into societal rules, traditions, and cultural beliefs, thereby facilitating adjustments for societal cohesion. Furthermore, it discusses the department's application of various theories to comprehend real-world issues, including pandemics, and its contributions to boosting the world economy, improving peace, and addressing global challenges. The report underscores the importance of social science in tackling environmental problems and evaluating policies, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, where expert advice from sociologists is crucial in policymaking. It concludes by emphasizing that, without social science, other scientific fields can only do little to solve social problems. The report references key literature to support its arguments.

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ROLES OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
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Roles of the Social Science Department
Social sciences focus on human social interrelationships, human behavior, and its
relevance to human life development. Department of social sciences empowers the citizens with
knowledge, mentorships, and social guidelines towards making uninformed decision concerning
the modern, diverse, and interdependent world. The values such as individuality, respect for
democracy, rationality, equality, and human dignity account for the stability of social order (Poe
et al., 2018, p 178). This paper addresses the roles and powers of social science in creating a
balance between world issues and humanity and justification of social sciences in creating a
cohesive society.
Social sciences relate human behavior to society. It works with defined values to
determine society's dynamics, traditions, and cultural beliefs. The benefits bring adjustments
between the set of rules and actions to take before disrupting societal order. Behavior values such
as unavoidability, necessity, and desirability that result make society to becoming compact (Poe
et al., 2018, p 178). Unavoidability provides checks for human culture and communications; it is
certain and ineluctable and forms the criterion of benchmarked with other societies. Finally,
necessity and desirability help in making considerate decisions between just and realm hence
cohesion. In general, values and behaviors play a vital role in shaping society for humanity.
Social science evokes critical thinking about human interactions in various disciplines;
this includes federal states, local government, and international organizations. Department of the
social sciences has applied multiple theories to comprehend real word pandemic. Since the
primary goal of social science is to improve the lives of the citizens, other roles such as boosting
world economy, improving peace, racism, poverty, urban decay, transport, and solving world

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disasters such as natural and artificial disasters can be addressed to social science. In specific
social science is a psychology science that can be used to tackle environmental problems. It helps
provide a narrative about people’s behavior and the implications of such behaviors in relation to
a situation. It can also be used in boosting the economy by evaluating policies in an attempt to
find remedies to economic problems (Chauke. 2019 p 63). Policies on racism and natural
resource disasters can be directed to scholarly works of social scientists such as psychologists to
find correct information, devising ethical frameworks, and the use of artificial intelligence.
In the bid to fight world pandemics such as COVID-19 (Coronavirus), sociologists
‘expert voices can be used in policymaking. Their voices can be used to providing advice,
checks, and rational pertaining to the sharing of resources, enacted policies on legal and
commercial issues affecting the globe in the mid of COVID-19 pandemic. In a nutshell
department of social sciences provides expert advice in the considerations of the balance
between public opinion, political demands, economic sanctions, political demands, and world
pandemics (Chauke. 2019 p 63). It is then evident that without social science, technology, and
other hard sciences can only do little to solve social problems.

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List of References
Chauke, M.T., 2018. The role of the EAP in managing the morale of social workers in the
Department of Social Development Greater Tzaneen office Limpopo Province (Doctoral
dissertation, University of Pretoria).
Poe, M.O., Quinain, K.T., Nacar, J.L.L. and Fernandez, V.J.E., 2018. A Predictive Model of
Volunteer Engagement to Department of Social Welfare and Development’s Kapit Bisig Laban
sa Kahirapan—A Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services. Asia-Pacific Social
Science Review, 18(2), pp.196-204.