MODULE 2 PT 2 Flashcards
comprised of a wide array of academic disciplines that study the overall functions of society as well as the interactions among its individual member and institution
SOCIAL SCIENCES
3 PROMINENT ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
ANTHROPOLOGY
SOCIOLOGY
POLITICAL SCIENCE
STUDY OF MAN
ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTHROPOS:
LOGOS
MAN AND STUDY
a systematic study of biological, cultural, and social aspect of man
ANTHROPOLOGY
The study on how social patterns and practices and cultural variation develop across different societies
SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
The study on cultural variation across different societies and examines the need to understand each culture in its own context
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
The study on language and discourse and how they reflect and shape different aspects of human society and culture
LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
The study on the origins of humans as well as the interplay between social factors and the processes of human evolution, adaptation, and variation over time
BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
The study that deals on with prehistoric societies by studying their tools and environment
ARCHAELOGY
He is best known today for providing of one of the earliest and clearest definitions of CULTURE one that is widely accepted and used by contemporary anthropologists.
Edward Burnett Tylor
Authored, Primitive Culture (1871)
Edward Burnett Tylor
he Mind of Primitive Man in 1937, and published Race, Language and Culture in 1940
FRANZ BOAS
anthropology was a holistic and eclectic field of study, so to assess theories of cultural differences, one must be familiar with biology, interrelations of humans and their environment and such specific criteria as human migration, nutrition, child-rearing customs and disease, to name a few.
FRANZ BOAS
The first student of Franz Boas and a prolific writer, he was one of the early proponents of Boas’ theory of “cultural relativism,” and a major force in bringing it into the mainstream of anthropology.
ALFRED KROEBER
was the second American to earn a Ph.D. in anthropology.
ALFRED KROEBER
Essentially this theory proclaims that culture exists purely for biological, psychological, and/or social needs.
MALINOWSKI’S THEORY OF NEEDS
outlines the variation between a process and a function; a process being the “how” and the function equating the “why.”
BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI
American cultural anthropologist, proponent of symbolic anthropology and interpretive anthropology.
CLIFFORD GEERTZ
is “a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life
Culture, according to Geertz,
best known for her studies of the nonliterate peoples of Oceania, especially with regard to various aspects of psychology and culture—the cultural conditioning of sexual behavior, natural character, and culture change
MARGARET MEAD
famous theory of imprinting found that children learn by watching adult behavior.
MARGARET MEAD