• Dr. Alice Mathew
• Sheena Jose

Social skills are the skills we use to communicate with each other both verbally and non-verbally, through gestures, body language and personal appearance. Social skills are specific behaviors, exhibited by children in free play or academic situation that initiate or maintain social interaction with others.Politics is the study of class relations and class struggles in society. Social skills are very much related to political science learning. So the investigator tried to find out the relation between social skills and proficiency in political science of Higher Secondary School Students in Thiruvananthapuram District. The study sample included 200 XII students from Humanities branch. The investigator adopted survey method to collect data. Data collection tool was two questionnaires, Social Skill Attainment Test and Proficiency test on Political Science. The Social Skill Attainment Test contained twenty one questions related to three social skills components which are Effective Communication, Interpersonal Relations and Empathy. In this study the independent variable was social skills and dependent variable was Proficiency in Political Science. Based on the social skills attainment test 16% of respondents had High level of social skills, 72% had Average level of social skills and 12% had Low level of social skills. Based on the proficiency test on political science 74% Higher Secondary School Students had average level of proficiency in Political Science. 14% and 12% of students were found to have high and low level of proficiency in political science respectively. The study revealed that there is positive correlation between social skills and proficiency in political science among higher secondary school students

Social Skills, Higher Secondary School Students, Proficiency, Political Science.

"RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL SKILLS AND PROFICIENCY IN POLITICAL SCIENCE AMONG HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THIRUVANANTHAPURAM DISTRICT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.271-273, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006048.pdf

"RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL SKILLS AND PROFICIENCY IN POLITICAL SCIENCE AMONG HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THIRUVANANTHAPURAM DISTRICT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp271-273, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006048.pdf