Sir Jonatahan Emegerencises Flashcards
Ancient greek historical and philosophical writings abt humans
Anthropology
-English cultural anthropologist
-First to hold the chair in the subject at oxford university in the uk in 1896
-Coined ythe term “culture”
Edward burnett taylor (1832-1917)
Was often studied through a a sacred or religious perspective (20th century)
History
-greek historian
-Coined term “Histories”
Herodotus (484 B.C - 425 B.C)
It was not considered a separate discipline until the 19th century
Economics
-founder of classical school
-wrote “wealth of the nations” in 1776
Adam smith(1723-1790)
It satisfies their natural curiosity about foreign places and different ways of life
Geography
-greek geographer
-became chief librarian at the library of alexandria
Eratosthene (276 B.C - 194 B.C)
The formal study of language began in India
Linguistic
Hindus also created text called
Vedas
It was old babylon who first created linguistic texts called
Sumerian
-swiss linguistic
Ferdinand de saussure (1857-1913)
Once part of many related fields of stufy like history, philosophy, law and economics
Political science
Who headed a village
Chieftain
Become a state
Chiefdom
-Political scientist
-he wrote “the politics”
Aristotle
Has its roots in ancient greek philosophy such as epistemology, metaphysics, religion and oriental philosophy
Psychology
-german psychologist
-wrote “principles of physiological and psychology”
Wilhelm wundt (1832-1920)
The intellectual, scientific and Industrial Revolutions which had happened in Europe in the middle of the 19th century led to the development of sociology
Sociology
-french sociologist
-coined term “sociology”
-wrote “course de Philosophie positive”
Auguste comte (1798-1857)
