FY008 Assignment: Social Science and Understanding Society

This essay analyzes the role of social science in understanding individual lives and society, focusing on two key topics: ethnicity and childhood. The essay explores how social science provides a framework for analyzing social aspects such as political issues, historical cultures, and economics. It discusses ethnicity as a way of understanding cultural differentiation and its impact on social divisions, including the evolution of ethnic identities and related issues like racism and discrimination. The essay also examines the social construction of childhood, highlighting how societal norms and expectations shape children's development and behavior. It references sociological perspectives on childhood, including the concept of childhood separateness, and explores how social environments, laws, and cultural beliefs influence children's experiences. Through these discussions, the essay emphasizes the importance of social science in uncovering the dynamics of human interactions and societal structures.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION .....................................................................................................................5
REFERNCES...................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Social science is branch of education involve the study as well as differentiation of
various prats of social aspects of world, such as political issues, rules and regulation, historical
culture of individual society, geography of world, economics. (Alvesson, M.,2017) In this
assessment it involves the study, to analyses that how social science helps in the better
understanding of our lives and others live in society, by concerning the two important subjects
that is ethnicity, children and childhood. As social science involve different branch on the basis
of various aspects of social culture, on the basis of resources, season, atmosphere,(geography),
the study of believes and ethics of live such as religion and cast differentiation, which is come
from the history of area ( country, sate, nation), study and development of rules and regulation
for the public, providing the services from government to public welfare comes under civics and
political science.
Main body
Social science aid to understand the social world, helps in analysing and gathering of
knowledge different community and nation, (Campbell, M. 2020.) every country have there own
social disciple on the basis of their social aspects such as, history of that that nation law, rule,
culture, history helps in the development of new rules and laws of government, and help the
public to understand their past rules, situation, incidence, act of ruler and past government,
political science and civics help public to know about the different laws, rules, rights and
government services divided for them, economics helps to know about changing production,
consumption, (Brown, C., 2018) rate of services and in other hand aid to analyses, compare the
economical growth, almost it is a study of country wealth.
the social science helps in understanding the lives of individual and other with the help
of ethnicity, it helps in understanding that what we should involve in our living cultural, how
and way. Ethnicity is thinking and way of looking of the particular community through which a
particular group of people differentiate themself from others group and community of people on
the basis of various component such as cast religion, (Das-Munshi, J., 2020.) dressing culture,
food culture, god religion. Social science aid to understand the (ethnic) cultural advantages and
disadvantages on developing nation that how ethnicity benefits and effect the growth of ( group
of people, individual, country) for example there are the various community's of religion, and
cultural beliefs of these religion beneficial as well as negative for the developing nation. By

knowing all these elements of ethnicity social division an individual can easily analyse that way
their life is like that and how they can change it for the improvement. Now a days ethnicity is
changing by making the relevant category of social division in present time for e.g. its
increasing the right social division , mix-ethnic societies. Current sociology is dealing with the
religious problems such as racism, ethnic rights, cast discrimination. Greenfield, E.A., 2019.) As
immigration started increasing in Western world due to the movement of peoples from from post
war era, then postcolonial nationalism expanded in the European dominance aftermath as well as
ethno-national battle increased around the world, social scientist started plaining for increasing
the development of ethnicity interest. Important objective of contemporary sociology is to focus
on the growth of changes in some of the negative outlook of community. Some examples of low
of ethical discrimination, Jim crow laws, main objective of this was to separate and group the
people in the Southern United States on the basis of skin colour and evaluation history. Jim crow
laws was started from 19th century then ends at 1965. Dr. Martin Luther king Jr. six decades ago
fought for removing Jim crow laws and implementation racial equality. Some other examples of
recent ethnicity fight, are battle for equal pay for work, as in America before 1, 2017 women's
wages was lass in compression to white man and women's, they was getting only 63% compare
to white men. ( Källström, Å. 2019.) Equal pay day for black women's is after 4 months of (April
17) equal pay day of white woman.
Social science helps to know the role of sociology in the development of childhood so
that grown-up individual live according to the society, it has advantages as well as disadvantages
on the success of individual. It aid to know that how an children's grown-up and develop their
social thinking and behaviour by the guide-ns of society related to time, culture and place.
(Rwegoshora, H.M., 2016) There are different religious community's and they provide different
social environment and guidelines to their children's. Social construction of childhood in
modern British society is done by the separation field of childhood and field of adulthood.
How the children's life get effected by social community, so for that Imagen that a small child is
prier in the front of sculpture of good without the command of parents, just because of social
guide-ns, social guideline is can be bad as well as good its depends on the social environment of
children's surrounding, for example discrimination between lower and upper class people, some
children's can do the because of social point of view of their family, friends and society,
(Martinez, B.P., 2020.) and some children's and respect each other because of positive guidelines

and these habits grow with the children's. In British society there is are the separated place for
children's activities where children's and trustworthy adults are expected to go. There are the
various laws to prevent children's from doing such activities ,which can be allowed for adults
only. There is the thinking of society for the use of children's product, that only children's can
play and use that product not adults. For the above given statement there is not any law for that,
it just a belief of society which decides to use these things for children's development. The
biological process of human body development is smiler but the sociological development of
children's is different on the basis of their particular society of living. According to the Philippe
Aries (1960) children's below 7 years are not expected to do household activities, they cant take
adult responsibility, more than 8 year children's can help out in useful activities of house and
outside. Children's more then 7 year can get punish for thieving and other criminal activities
same as adults. That was the argue of aries why society is not treating children's as objects of
love and loyalty. There are the various social issues related to children's, as many family use
their children's for money earn they force them to work for money at younger age, parents give
them responsibilities at the age of independence, which effects development children's.
CONCLUSION
analysing role of social science on the understanding of individual lives and others, it
conclude that social aspects effects individual and others life, ethnicity is good as well as bad
for peoples because different cultural occasion create ethical bond between different community
and love , but opposite to it some negative ethical belief's can create a big conflict, so it is
important to study social science and find out the drawback of ethical and social community for
the improvement. It has been also concluded that social community and thinking effects the
development and success of children's so it is important to give right knowledge of society and
culture to the children's.

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