Lesson 1.2 Flashcards
Social science
A group of academic disciplines dedicated to examining human behavior
Nisbet (1974)
“it is a branch of discipline or branch of science that deals with human behavior in its social and cultural aspects”
NATURAL SCIENCE
It is a branch of science that deals with the natural world: its processes, elements, and composition.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Latin word means man and Greek word means to study.
Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” (1859)
fruit of scientific developments in the Western World through the groundbreaking work
Physical anthropology
focuses on the biological and evolutionary framework of humanity.
Archaeology
which investigates of prehistoric cultures as its primary focus
Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942)
introduced participant observation as a method of studying culture.
Howell (2018, p. 4
open-ended inductive long-term living with and among the people to be studied
Franz Boas (1858-1942)
considered the Father of American Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology
The study of people with their variations and progress in terms of culture.
Linguistic Anthropology
The study of language mainly but not exclusively among humans.
Biological Anthropology
The study of humans as biological organisms
Applied Anthropology
hey analyze social, political, and economic problems