UCSP

• Anthropology is the study of human origin, globalization, social change, and world history.
• Cultural Anthropology is the study of living people and their cultures.
• Cultural Anthropology deals with the description and analysis of forms, styles, and social life of past and present ages.
• Linguistic Anthropology is the study of communication, mainly (but not exclusively) among humans.
• Archaeology is the study of past human cultures through their material remains. It recovers artifacts.
• Biological Anthropology is the study of humans as biological organisms including their evolution and contemporary variation.
• Applied Anthropology refers to anthropology put to use,
• Sociology studies human civilization, study of societies and groups. It focuses on carious social connections, institutions, organizations, structures, and processes.
• August Comte, also known as "Father of Sociology", coined the term Sociology.
• Social Organization is the study of social institutions, social inequality, social mobility, religious groups, and bureaucracy.
• Social Psychology is the study of human nature and its emphasis on social processes as they affect individual or responses called "social stimuli".
• Applied Sociology is yielding practical applications for human behavior and organizations.
• Population Studies includes size, growth, demographic, characteristics, composition, migration, changes, and quality economics, political and social systems.
• Human Ecology study of the effects of various social organizations to the population's behavior.
• Sociology Theory and Research is the discovery of theoretical tools, methods and techniques to explain a sociological issue
• Social Change studies the factors that cause social organization and social disorganization.
• Political Science is the study of government and political processes, institutions and behaviors.
• Political Science is the study of complex behavior of various political actors such as the government administration, opposition, and subjects.
• Politics has something to do with power - who wields it and how it is used.
• Politics is the social process or strategy in any position of control which people gain, use, or lose power.
• Government is the agency to which the will of the state is formulated, expressed, and carried out.
• Government is the organized agency in a state tasked to impose social control.
• Society refers to all people, collectively regarded as constituting a community of related, interdependent individuals living in a particular place, following a certain mode of life.
• Society refers to a population of people that is organized in a cooperative manner to carry out the major function of life including reproduction, sustenance, shelter, and defense.
• Communal Society typically small and relatively isolated from other cities and each member knows each other well (close relationship).
• Associational Society is highly populated, urbanized and industrialized (secondary/ contractual relationship).
• Gemeinschaft is another term for communal society
• Gesellschaft is another term for associational society
• Culture is a complex whole which encompasses beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, laws, norms, artifacts, symbols, knowledge, and everything that a person learns and shares as a member of society,
• E.B. Taylor was the first to coin the term culture in the 18th century.
• Explicit Culture refers to similarities in words and actions that can be directly observed. It is tangible.
• Implicit Culture exists in abstract forms that are not quite obvious.
• Ethnocentrism is the perception of one's own culture as superior compared to other cultures.
• Xenocentrism is the perception of one's own culture as inferior compared to other culture.
• Biological evolution refers to the changes, modifications, and variations in the genetics and inherited traits of biological populations from one generation to another.
• Natural Selection is the outcome of a process that affects the frequencies of traits in a particular environment.
• Hominid - a man like primate, during the age of mammals, the primates were the highest order of mamals.
• Homo Habilis - handy man, predecessor/direct ancestor of the modern human, used tools for gathering
• Homo Erectus - upright man, more intelligent and more adaptable compared to homo habilis, hunted animals
• Homo Sapiens - wise man, first developed the use of oral language, they buried their dead, made tools and had primitive art and religion.