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• Anthropology


  The study of humankind in all times and all places, including human origin, globalization, social change, and world history
• Goals of Anthropology


  • Discover what makes people different from one another in order to understand and preserve diversity
  • Discover what all people have in common
  • Look at one's own culture more objectively like an outsider
  • Produce new knowledge and new theories about humankind and human behavior
• Fields of Anthropology


  • Cultural Anthropology
  • Linguistic Anthropology
  • Archaeology
  • Biological Anthropology
• Sociology


  The systematic study of groups and societies that people build and how these affect their behavior
• Sociology was coined by August Comte, who was regarded as the "Father of Sociology"
• What the scientific study of Sociology enables us to do

  • 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) are interdependent with each other
  • Broaden our familiarity on sociological facts, which are acquired through empirical process
  • Expose our minds to the different perspectives on attaining the truth
• Branches of Sociology


  • Social Organization
  • Social Psychology
  • Applied Sociology
  • Population Studies
  • Human Ecology
  • Sociological Theory and Research
  • Social Change
• Political Science


  The academic discipline that deals with the study of government and political processes, institutions, and behaviors
• Politics


  The art and science of governing city/state, the social process or strategy in any position of control which people gain, use, or lose power
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  The agency to which the will of the state is formulated, expressed, and carried out, the organized agency in a state tasked to impose social control, a group of people that governs a community or unit
• The government exists for the benefit of the governed, not for the government officials to benefit from the people
• State


  A community of persons more or less numerous permanently occupying a definite portion of territory, having a government of their own to which the great body of inhabitants render obedience and enjoying freedom from external control
• Nation


  An ethnic concept which means that people are bound together by common ethnical elements such as race, language, and culture
• Areas of Sociology


  • Social Organization
  • Social Psychology
  • Applied Sociology
  • Population Studies
  • Human Ecology
  • Sociological Theory and Research
  • Social Change
• Social Organization


  Includes the study of social institutions, social inequality, social mobility, religious groups, and bureaucracy
• Social Psychology


  Focuses on the study of human nature and its emphasis on social processes as they affect individual or responses which are called "social stimuli"
• Applied Sociology


  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
• Population Studies


  Includes size, growth, demographic characteristics, composition, migration, changes, and quality vis-à-vis economic, political, and social systems
• Human Ecology


  Pertains to the study of the effects of various social organizations (religious organizations, political institutions and etc.) to the population's behavior
• Sociological Theory and Research

  Focuses on the discovery of theoretical tools, methods, and techniques to scientifically explain a particular sociological issue
• Social Change


  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
• Cultural Anthropology


  The study of living people and their cultures including variation and change. It deals with the description and analysis of the forms and styles and the social lives of past and present ages. Cultural anthropologists also study art, religion, migration, marriage, and family.
• Linguistic Anthropology


  The study of communication, mainly (but not exclusively) among humans. It includes the study of communication's origins, history, and contemporary variation.
• Archaeology


  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.
• Biological anthropology


  Also known as "physical anthropology", this refers to the study of humans as biological organisms including their evolution and contemporary variation. It seeks to describe the distribution of hereditary variations among contemporary populations and to sort out and measure the relative contributions made by heredity, environment, and culture to human biology.
• Cultural Anthropology


  The study of living people and their cultures including variation and change. It deals with the description and analysis of the forms and styles and the social lives of past and present ages. Cultural anthropologists also study art, religion, migration, marriage, and family.
• Linguistic Anthropology


  The study of communication, mainly (but not exclusively) among humans. It includes the study of communication's origins, history, and contemporary variation.
• Archaeology


  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.
• Biological anthropology


  Also known as "physical anthropology", this refers to the study of humans as biological organisms including their evolution and contemporary variation. It seeks to describe the distribution of hereditary variations among contemporary populations and to sort out and measure the relative contributions made by heredity, environment, and culture to human biology.