Lesson 1 Flashcards
Learned patterns of perception values, and behaviors, shared by a group of people, that are dynamic and heterogeneous.
Culture
Anthropology is for?
CULTURE
Sociology is for
SOCIETY
Political science is for
POLITICS
Anthropology answers what question?
What does it mean to be human, Who are we?, Where do we come from?
Sociology answers what question?
How do we study society?, What are the things that you think influence your life?, What is life to people living in places with different culture and behavior?
Where did anthropology start?
-Anthropology started as a science during the time of exploration when European countries started to colonize.
-Study primitive societies where people were believed to be savages and barbaric
Where did sociology start?
-Sociology emerged as an academic field right at the height of Industrial Revolution in Europe.
-These era brought great changes in the way people live in a society
Who started this field: Anthropology
Franz Boas
Who started this field: Sociology
August Comte
Concept of Anthropology?
Study of people and their culture
Concept of Sociology?
-Study of society, patterns of social interactions, culture of everyday life.
Subject Inquiry: Anthropology
-Bilogical Anthropology
-Cultural Anthropology
-Linguistics
-Archeology
Subject Inquiry: Sociology
-Social Phenomena, Issues, and Problems
-Family Background, Socioeconomic Status, Ethnicity, Social Classes, Religion, Gender, Believs, Traditions, Norms.
-Social Organization, Social Psychology, Applied Sociology and Human Ecology
Goals of Anthropology
-See the commonalities among people (tradition, langusge, kinship, etc).
-Look at hwat makes us the same to understand more about human nature
-Discover hwat makes people different from each other in order to understand and preserve diversity
-Produce new knowledge and new theories about mankind and behavior
-Look at one’s own culture more objectively
