UCSP D WOW

• Anthropology “holistic study of humanity”
• Sociology “study of social world”
• Political Science “study of politics”
• Anthropology Questions

  1. “What does it mean to be human?”
  2. “Who are you“
  3. “Where do you come from?”
• Sociology

  1. “How do we study society?”
  2. “What are the things that you think influence your life?”
  3. “What is life to people living in places with diff. culture and behavior?”
• Anthropology - Greek words:

  1. ANTHROPOS - Human being/humanity
  2. LOGOS - study/knowledge
• Anthropology is the father/grandfather of all social and behavioral sciences (like sociology, economics, and psychology)
• Anthropology is the study of people/their culture
• Research method used for Anthropology: ethnography: where anthropologists need to live with their subject of study for a long period of time
• When did the Anthropology started?

  TIME OF EXPLORATION - When European countries started to colonize what they considered as primitive societies (barbaric and savages people)
• 6 barbaric/savage/germanic tribes

  1. Vandals
  2. Vikings
  3. Ostrogoths
  4. Franks
  5. Anglos
  6. Saxons
• Anthropology started as the study of non-European people by European people (outward)
• Then, europeans stated to make a written record about non-europeans (focus on Kinship (BLOOD RELATIONSHIP), Language, Race, Religion, Cultural Perceptions).
• Franz Boas is the Father of modern American Anthropology
• franz boas wrote the Doctrine of “historial particularism”
• franz boas said that Each society have a unique form of culture that can’t be understood under an overall definition of general culture
• claude levi-strauss said that Anthropology has humanity as its object of research
• claude levi-strauss said how different people can be, but also, says that all humans have something in common.
• 4 subject of inquiries of Anthropology

  1. biological
  2. cultural
  3. linguistic
  4. archaeology
• Biological Anthropology - Human origins (genetics, race, evolutions, fossils, primates)
• Cultural anthropology - Study of living people (religion, social system, language, clothing, foods, beliefs, traditions, etc.)
• Linguistics - Language, evolution, connection to other languages
• Archaeology - Dead culture (religion, social system, language, how they dress, foods, beliefs, traditions, etc.)
• Goal of anthropology: See the commonalities of people - (tradition, language, kinship)
• Goal of anthropology: Look at what makes us the same about human nature
• Goal of anthropology: Discover what makes people different to understand and preserve diversity
• Goal of anthropology: Produce new knowledge and theories
• goal of anthropology: Look at one’s culture OBJECTIVELY
• Society - Latin word “SOCIETAS” - which means bond/interaction of people sharing common culture
• Sociology started during the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION in Europe. It started as study of European society by European people (inward)
• Auguste Comte - French philosopher and mathematician
• Auguste Comte Coined the term “sociology”
• Auguste comte saw the need for systematic science of studying society and in dealing with the solution of basic problems
• Sociology is the study of society, patterns of social interactions, and culture of everyday life
• Unlike anthropology, the knowledge created by sociology is used to understand one’s own society
• Sociology uses Qualitative research
• Sociologists look into things that influence life

  • family
  • Background
  • beliefs
  • Ethnicity
  • socio-economic status
  • social classes
  • religion
  • Traditions
  • Gender
  • norms
• Some fields are social organization, social psychology, applied sociology, and human ecology
• GOALS OF SOCIOLOGY

  1. Obtain theories/principles about society and aspects of social life
  2. Study nature of humanity to examine roles within society
  3. Appreciate that All things in society are interdependent (depending on each other)
  4. Expose our minds to different perspectives in attaining truth
• POLITICAL SCIENCE is the Process of making collective decisions in a community, society, or group through application of influence and power ( ehtridge and handelman 2010)