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  • Anthropology the study of human’s past and present
  • Cultural Anthropology: Studies human cultures, beliefs, ideas, technologies, economies, practices, values, and other spheres of social and rational organization.
  • Physical Anthropology: Deals with biological and behavioral aspects of human beings. It focuses on their relationships to non-human primates and their extinct hominid ancestors
  • Archaeology: Studies both the ancient and recent past of humans through the material remains, such as artifacts, fossils and bone fragments.
  • Linguistic Anthropology: Studies the relations between language and culture in relation to human biology, human reasoning and human language.
  • Applied Anthropology: Deals with the application of anthropological facts, perspectives, theories, and procedures in identifying, assessing, and solving social problems.
  • Determine what makes people different from one another in order to understand and preserve diversity.
  • According to Aguilar, M. V. G., et al. (2016), anthropology is derived from two Greek words Anthropos and logos, which intensively studies humans and the respective cultures where they are born
  • Sociology: deals with the study of society and social interactions taking place. It also deals with the origin, evolution, and development of human society. It is focused on all kinds of social interactions, social relationships, and social organization, structure and process.
  • Social Organization: This includes the study of social institutions, social inequality, social mobility, religious groups, and bureaucracy.
  • Social Psychology: This area focuses on the study of human nature and its emphasis on social processes as they affect individual or responses which are called “social stimuli”.
  • Applied Sociology: The goal of Applied Sociology is to assist in resolving social problems through the use of sociological research.
  • Population Studies: This area includes size, growth, demographic characteristics, composition, migration, changes, and quality vis-a-vis economic, political, and social systems.
  • Human Ecology: It pertains to the study of the effects of various 8 social organizations (religious organizations, political institutions and etc.) to the population’s behavior
  • Sociological Theory And Research: It focuses on the discovery of theoretical tools, methods, and techniques to scientifically explain a particular sociological issue
  • Social Change: It studies factors that cause social organization and social disorganization like calamity, drug abuse, drastic and gradual social change, health and welfare problems, political instability, unemployment and underemployment, child and women issue, etc.
  • This science also means understanding the nature of various social realities so that this society can draw up strategic plans, set goals and programs that will work to increase progress and raise society. (Saou 2017)
  • According to Aguilar, M. V. G., et. al. (2016) Studying sociology is practical and useful. As social beings, we gain understanding of how the social world operates and of our place in it. C. Wright Mills (1959) calls it the sociological imagination which he defined as “the vivid awareness between private experiences and the wider society.”
  • Political Science: is a social science discipline that deals with the study of the state and government. It is concerned about politics and policies of the government.
  • Political Theory: this field integrates the timeless with timely questions about political ideology, fairness, justice, and equity.
  • International Relations: the study of political relations between nation-states. It includes the study of diplomacy, military conflict, and conflict resolution, as well as the international political economy, international organizations.
  • Political Methodology: Focuses on the qualitative methods used in the study of politics combining statistics, mathematics, and formal theory.
  • Public Administration: Is the implementation of government policy and also an academic discipline that studies this implementation and prepares civil servants for working in the public service.
  • Political Economy: Is the study of production and trade and their relations with law, custom and government; and with the distribution of national income and wealth.
  • The political science major aims to create educated citizens capable of organizing information, thinking critically and communicating effectively. A solid foundational understanding of the critical theoretical issues underlying political life: the individual and community; political obligation; stability, revolution, and change; legitimacy and justice; and freedom and power. This is the focus of nature of politics. (Field & Bathory 2015)
  • According to Miller (2017) the modern word ‘political’ derives from the Greek politikos, ‘of, or pertaining to, the ‘polis’ . (The Greek term polis will be translated here as ‘city-state’. It is also translated as ‘city’ or ‘polis’, or simply as ‘polis’
  • C. Wright Mills (1959) calls it the sociological imagination :which he defined as “the vivid awareness between private experiences and the wider society.”
  • Nation-State: when a nation of people have a state of their own