ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY & POLITICAL SCIENCE Flashcards
The study of human societies and cultures and their development.
ANTHROPOLOGY
What is the greek word of “MAN”
ANTHROPOS
What is the greek word of “STUDY”
LOGOS
Studies how social patterns and practices and cultural variations develop across different societies.
SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Studies cultural variations develop across different societies and examine the needs to understand each culture in its own context.
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life.
LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
Studies origins of humans as well as the interplay between social factors and process of human evolution,adaptation and variations overtime.
BIOLOGICAL & PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
The study of human past using material remains.
ARCHAEOLOGY
The study of human social life, groups and society.
SOCIOLOGY
Includes the study of social institutions, soocial inequality, social mobility, religious group.
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
Cultural theories of the 1930s emphasized human ability to innovate, accumulate, and diffuse culture.
CULTURAL THEORY
Systematic study of politics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Examine how the government functions and how decisions and politics are made.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Systematic study and comparison of the diverse political systems in the world. It is compararive in searching to explain why different political systems have similaritirs or diofferences.
COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Are tasked with understanding how the state affects the market.
POLITICAL ECONOMY
