Introduction to the Social Sciences

📋 Course Outline

1. Economic Study of Scarce Resources
2. Managing Resources and Collective Choices
3. Comparing Quantitative Data
4. Sociological Study of Behaviors
5. Political Power and International Events

📅 Key Dates

1. 1920the Antwerp Olympic Games did not invite the countries defeated in the First World War
2. 1936the Berlin Olympic Games were used for Nazi propaganda
3. 1980the Moscow and Los Angeles Olympic Games were affected by a boycott between the Western and Eastern blocs
4. 2024Russia and its ally Belarus were not invited to the Paris Olympic Games

📖 1. Economic Study of Scarce Resources

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Economics : the science that studies how scarce resources are produced, exchanged, and distributed
• Scarce resources : useful resources available in limited quantities

📝 Essential Points

📌 Some resources are renewable within the scale of a human lifetime, whereas others are not, even though resources may be available in large quantities while remaining limited.

💡 Memory Hook

Limited resources → choices about production, exchange, and distribution

📖 2. Managing Resources and Collective Choices