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• Anthropology includes topics such as human origin, globalization, social change, and world history
• It is the study of humankind in all times and all places
• Goals of anthropology:

  • Discover what makes people different from one another to understand and preserve diversity
  • Discover commonalities in all humanity
  • Look at one's own culture more objectively like an outsider
  • Produce new knowledge and theories about humankind and human behavior
• Fields of anthropology:

  • Cultural Anthropology: study of living people and their cultures, including variation and change
  • Linguistic Anthropology: study of communication among humans
  • Archaeology: study of past human cultures through material remains
  • Biological Anthropology: study of humans as biological organisms, including evolution and contemporary variation
• Sociology is the study of human civilization
• Scientific study of Sociology enables us to:

  • Obtain theories and principles about society and social life
  • Critically study the nature of humanity
  • Appreciate interdependence in society
  • Broaden familiarity on sociological facts
  • Expose minds to different perspectives on truth
• Branches of sociology:

  • Social Organization
  • Social Psychology
  • Applied Sociology
  • Population Studies
  • Human Ecology
  • Sociological Theory and Research
  • Social Change
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Political Science is the study of government and political processes, institutions, and behaviors
• Politics is the art and science of governing city/state
• Government is the agency to which the will of the state is formulated, expressed, and carried out
• Difference between politics and government:

  • Politics is an idea, while government is the concrete realization of that idea