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  • ANTHROPOLOGY It includes topic such as human origin, globalization, social change, and world history.
    It is the study of humankind and all places. It is the study of humanity including our prehistoric origins and contemporary human diversity.
  • The study of living people and their cultures with description and analysis of their social lives from the past and present. CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
  • The study of communication among humans. It includes its origins, history, and contemporary variation. LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
  • The study of past human cultures through their material remains. It is the study of past human cultures through the recovery and analysis of artifacts. ARCHEOLOGY
  • Also known as the “ physical anthropology ”, the study of humans as biological organisms including their evolution and contemporary variation. BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
  • The term sociology was derived from the Latin word socius meaning "associate" and the Greek word logos, meaning “study of knowledge.” It is a science that studies human civilization. SOCIOLOGY
    • Sociology enables us to:
    Obtain possible theories and principles about society as well as various aspects of social life;
    • Critically study the nature of humanity, which also leads to examining our roles within the society;
    • Appreciate that all things in society. An individual’s personal history is connected to his/her environment’s history, which is also tied into the nation’s history;
  • This includes the study of social institutions, social inequality, social mobility, religious groups, and bureaucracy.
    SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
  • This is concerned with the specific intent of yielding practical applications for human behavior and organizations. The goal of Applied Sociology is to assist in resolving social problems through the use of sociological research.
    APPLIED SOCIOLOGY
  • This area includes size, growth, demographic characteristics, composition, migration, changes, and quality vis-à-vis economic, political, and social systems.
    POPULATION STUDIES
  • It pertains to the study of the effects of various social organizations (religious organizations, political institutions and etc.) to the population’s behavior.
    HUMAN ECOLOGY
  • It focuses on the discovery of theoretical tools, methods, and techniques to scientifically explain a particular sociological issue.
    SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AND RESEARCH
  • 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’s issue, etc.
    SOCIAL CHANGE
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE
    • It is an academic discipline that deals with the study of government and political processes, institutions, and behaviors.
    • It is a study of the complex behavior of various political actors such as the government administration, opposition, and subjects.
    • It is the systematic study of political and government institutions and processes.
    • What is Politics?
    It originated from the Greek word polis, which means ‘city’ or ‘state’.
    • It is the art and science of governing city/state.
    • It is the social process or strategy in any position of control which people gain, use, or lose power.
    • What is Government?
    It is the agency to which the will of the state is formulated, expressed, and carried out.
    • It is the organized agency in a state tasked to impose social control.
    • It is a group of people that governs a community or unit. It sets and administers public policy and exercises executive, political, and sovereign power through customs, institutions and laws within a state.
  • Differentiation between Politics and Government
    The government typically refers to the established legislative and executive departments of a nation or state.
    Politics is a broad term that is related to the power sharing in any organization. 
    In other words, politics is an idea while government is the concrete realization of that idea.
  • It was coined by August Comte who was regarded as the “Father of Sociology.”
  •  non-elected governing officials or an administrative policy-making group. Historically, a bureaucracy was a government administration managed by departments staffed with non-elected officials. 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”.