Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science

• Anthropology is the study, analysis, and description of humanity’s past and present. Questions about the past include prehistoric origins and human evolution.
• The study of contemporary humanity focuses on biological and cultural diversity, including language.
• All in all Anthropology, "the study of humankind," which examines people in viewpoints going from the science and transformative history of Homo sapiens to the provisions of society and culture that unequivocally recognize people from other creature species.
• Research Method in anthropology range from logical to humanistic. They plan a speculation, or examination question, and afterward mention objective facts to check whether the theory is right. This methodology creates both quantitative (numeric) information and subjective (elucidating) information.
• The nature of anthropology can be view from its historical perspective because is a global discipline involving humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.
• GOALS OF ANTHROPOLOGY

  1. to comprehend the fossil record of early people and their precursors just as the archeological record of later ancient social orders.
  2. to understand how we adapt to different environmental conditions and how we vary as a species.
  3. to comprehend the conduct of monkeys and gorillas in their regular settings.
• GOALS OF ANTHROPOLOGY

  4. is to find out about both the natural and social parts of humankind all throughout the planet and all through time.

  5. to apply anthropological information to help forestall or take care of issues of living people groups, including destitution, substance addiction, and HIV/AIDS.
• Sociology is the scientific investigation of human culture and social behavior. Sociology is a discipline in social sciences concerned about human society and human social activities.
• Auguste Comte, a French social scholar, is generally known as the "Father of Sociology" as he instituted the term 'Humanism' in 1839.
• Goals of Sociology

  • To understand how membership in one's social group affects individual behavior
  • To understand the meaning and consequences of modernity, postmodernity and the new globalization
  • To understand how cultures and institutions interact in different societies
  • To understand the causes and consequences of social change in terms of general causes and effects as well as unique historical circumstances
  • To understand the causes and consequences of population composition and pressures and how population affects the environment and development of circumstances and behavior
  • To provide information that reflects upon different policy initiatives
• The fundamental knowledge of sociology is that human conduct is molded by the gatherings to which individuals have a place and by the social communication that happens inside those gatherings. We are what our identity is and we act the manner in which we do in light of the fact that we end up living in a specific culture at a specific point in reality. Individuals will in general acknowledge their social world unquestioningly, as something "regular."
• Political Science is the study of the nature, causes, and consequences of collective decisions and actions taken by groups of people embedded in cultures and institutions that structure power and authority.
• Plato composed The Republic and Aristotle composed the Politics.
• Aristotle is known as the Father of Political Science. He is well known for his assertion "Man is a political animal".
• GOALS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

  -is the concern with the process of growth, industrialization and change and the impact on government forms and policies.

  -is to describe how various political systems function, and to find more effective political systems.

  -is to measure the success of governance and specific policies by examining many factors, including stability, justice, material wealth
• historical perspective- can be viewed from a global discipline involving humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.
• As Samuel Koenig has pointed out the ultimate aim of sociology is ” to improve man’s ______________ to life by developing objective knowledge concerning social phenomena which can be used to deal effectively with social problems”. What is missing word?

  adjustment