Nomadic lifestyle Flashcards
A branch of learning that deals with human society. It includes a number of disciplines.
Social science
From the Latin word SOCUIS meaning .
Associate/Companion
From the Greek word LOGOS meaning
Study/Inquire
Helps us see that all people are social beings. It tells that your behavior is influenced by social factors and that you have learned your behavior from others.
Sociology Perspective
Father of Sociology
Auguste Comte
a way of thinking based on assumption that it is possible to observe social life if we will be using scientific method to understand society.
Positivism
He said that the study of society must involve social facts.
NORMS, FOLKWAYS, BELIEF, MORES
Emile Durkheim
Father of Modern Sociology
Emile Durkheim
True or False: Comte and Durkheim did not believe that society is a set of interdependent parts.
False
influenced by Auguste Comte, but he emphasized that in understanding society we need not only to observe in step by step procedure but we also must have METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES that will lead us into research.
Emile Durkheim
He said that “Society is like a body (human body) a living organisim.”
Herbert Spencer
Social Darwinism-Survival of the fittest
Herbert Spencer
Derived from the Greek word Anthropos meaning
Man
Holistic study of man
Anthropology
Deals with the prehistoric societies, through examination of artifacts and fossils.
Archaeology
Father of American Anthropology
Franz Boas
Focusses on human cultures, beliefs, practices, values, ideas, technologies, and economies.
Cultural Anthropology
Concerned with the origin and evolution of man and the diversity of people.
Biological Anthropology