DISS

• From a French word "CERCHIER" meaning "to seek or to search."
• Research

  An attempt to solve or gain a solution to a problem.
• Types of Research:

  Basic Research

  Applied Research

  Qualitative Research

  Quantitative Research
• Qualitative research presents non-qualitative type of analysis and is used for collecting, analyzing and interpreting data by observing what people do and say
• Quantitative research this research aim to measure the quantity or amount and compares it with past records and tries to project for future period.
• Geocentric

  ▸ Earth in the middle and the sun, moon and all the planets travel around the earth.
• Claudius Ptolemy was aa mathematician, astronomer and geographer famous for his geocentric theory
• Geo meaning Earth
• Centic meaning Center
• Nicolaus Copernicus was an astronomer who proposed a heliocentric theory
• Charles Darwin was a British naturalist born in 1809 He was known for his famous work "On the Origin of Species."
• Darwin changed the way the people of the world viewed themselves through his amazing ideas on evolution and natural selection
• The crux of Darwin's Theory of Evolution focuses on the elimination of inferior species gradually over time, through a process called Natural Selection
• Anthropology is the holistic "science of man", a science of the totality of human existence.
• GREEK WORD "ANTHROPOS" WHICH MEANS HUMAN
• GREEK WORD LOGOS WHICH MEANS STUDY
• Anthropology

  IT SHOULD BE DEFINED AS THE STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIOLOGICAL TRAITS AND SOCIALLY ACQUIRED CHARATERISTICS
• Physical Anthropology is the study of me human body. This includes a study of genetics, anatomy
• Physical Anthropology - The branch that deals with the physical characteristics of humans and their ancestors
• Linguistic Anthropology

  The human communication process

  Verbal and nonverbal communication

  The structure, function, and history of languages
• Archaeology is the study of the human past using material remains. 
• Archaeology

  Prehistory and early history of cultures around the world
• Cultural Anthropology

  Describes and analyzes the beliefs people have about their social and material worlds, and the ways these Ifect human action
• Questions about the emergence of humans and their evolution (the

  focus is called human paleontology)
• How and why contemporary human populations vary biologically (this focus called human variation).
• Ethnography is a research method that involves embedding yourself in the environment of a group or community and recording what you observe
• Ethnology is the process of comparing and contrasting a variety of cultures to identify general rules about how culture works.
• The term economics comes from the two Ancient Greek words "OIKOS" & "NOMOS".
• 'Oikos' meaning "House"
• 'Nomos' meaning "Law"
• Wealth definition is given by Adam smith and his followers.
• Science of Wealth It is also known as CLASSICAL DEFINITION
• Adam Smith is called the "father of economics" because of his theones on capitalism, free markets, and supply and demand
• The invisible hand is part of laissez-faire, meaning the "let do/let go," approach to the market.
• Ceteris Paribus Assumption

  means "all other things held constant or all else equal."
• The Factors of Production

  Land

  Capital

  Labor

  Entrepreneurs
• Land includes the "gifts of nature," or natural resources not created by human effort.
• Capital includes the tools, equipment, and factories used in production.
• Labor includes people with all their efforts and abilities.
• Entrepreneurs are Individuals who start a new business or bring a product to market.