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  • Anthropology includes topics such as human origin, globalization, social change, and world history
  • Anthropology is the study of humankind and all places, including human origins and contemporary human diversity
  • Cultural Anthropology:
    • Study of living people and their cultures with description and analysis of their social lives from the past and present
  • Linguistic Anthropology:
    • Study of communication among humans, including origins, history, and contemporary variation
  • Archaeology:
    • Study of past human cultures through their material remains, involving the recovery and analysis of artifacts
  • Biological Anthropology:
    • Also known as "physical anthropology," it studies humans as biological organisms, including evolution and contemporary variation
  • Sociology is the science that studies human civilization
  • Social Organization:
    • Study of social institutions, social inequality, social mobility, religious groups, and bureaucracy
  • Applied Sociology:
    • Concerned with yielding practical applications for human behavior and organizations to resolve social problems through sociological research
  • Population Studies:
    • Study of size, growth, demographic characteristics, migration, changes, and quality in relation to economic, political, and social systems
  • Human Ecology:
    • Study of the effects of various social organizations on population behavior
  • Sociological Theory and Research:
    • Focuses on discovering theoretical tools, methods, and techniques to explain sociological issues scientifically
  • Social Change:
    • Studies factors causing social organization and disorganization like calamity, drug abuse, social change, health issues, political instability, unemployment, child and women's issues
  • Political Science:
    • Academic discipline studying government, political processes, institutions, and behaviors
  • Bureaucracy:
    • Non-elected governing officials or an administrative policy-making group historically managed by non-elected officials in government administration
  • 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”