Introduction to Sociology, Anthropology, and Political Science

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Its is a group of academic disciplines that examines society and how people interact and develop as a culture.

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Social Science

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Anthropology is divided into 4 disciplines. What are these?

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Archaeology
Biological anthropology
Cultural anthropology
Linguistic anthropology

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The study of people, past and present. Focuses on understanding human condition both culturally and biologically

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Anthropology

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Systematic study of the government, politics and political behavior.

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Political Science

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4 Subfields of Political Science:

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Political Theory
Comparative Politics
International Relations
Political Methodology

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Systematic study of relationships among people; Study of human society

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Sociology

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Subfield of anthropology that investigates ancient culture and compares it to modern culture.

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Archeology

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; represents the process of gradual development. Natural selection occurs because individuals having more-useful traits survive better and produce more progeny than individuals with less-favorable traits.

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Anthropology: Evolutionism

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Charles Darwin develop Evolutionism in ___ upon the publication of ____

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1859; On the origin of species

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belief that the universe and the various forms of life were created by God out of nothing

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Creationism

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He explained the development of society; Was influenced by Charles Darwin’s Evolutionism

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Herbert Spencer

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He proposed the idea of unilineal evolution

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E.B. Tylor

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a society’s evolution is unidirectional, and it passes through three diff. stages

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Unilineal Evolution

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3 Stages of unilineal evolution

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Savagery
Barbarism
Civilization

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complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, art, morals, law, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.

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culture or civilization

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Three perspective of sociology

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Structural Functional Theory
Social Conflict Theory
Symbolic Interactionism

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Views society as a complex, but interconnected system, where each part works together as a functional whole.

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Structural Functional Theory

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Views the society as a system of groups that are not equal, and thus consistently general conflict and change.

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Socual Conflict Theory

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focuses on the symbolic meaning that people develop and rely upon in the process of social interaction.

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Symbolic Interactionism

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believed that individuals act according to their interpretation of the meaning of their world.

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Max Weber

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People interpret one another’s behavior and it is these interpretations that form “social bonds”. These interpretation are called:

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“Definition of the situation”

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Political doctrine that believes that protecting and enhancing the freedom of the individuals is the central problem of politics.

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Liberalism

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System of socialism of which the dominant feature is public ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.

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Marxism

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Marxism is an economic and social system based on the political and economic theories of:

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Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels.

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2 classes of society under Capitalism

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Capitalists (owns the mean of production)
Proletariat (the working class or the people)

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taking the lens of critical and conflict perspective

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Neo-Marxist