Module 1

• The term sociology was derived from the Latin word socius, meaning "associate" and the Greek word logos, meaning “study of knowledge.”
• Sociology was coined by August Comte, who was regarded as the “father of Sociology.”
• Sociology is a science which studies human civilization.

  It is a systematic study of groups and societies that people build and how these affect their behavior.
• Areas of Sociology (SPASHSS)

  1. Social Organization
  2. Population Studies
  3. Applied Sociology
  4. Social Psychology
  5. Human Ecology
  6. Sociological Theory and Research
  7. Social Change
• Anthropology is the study of humanity, including our prehistoric origins and contemporary human diversity.
• Biological Anthropology refers to the study of humans as biological organisms, including their evolution and contemporary variation
• Archaeology refers to 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
• Linguistic Anthropology refers to the study of communication, mainly (but not exclusively) among humans. It includes the study of communication’s origins, history, and contemporary variation
• Cultural Anthropology refers to the study of living people and their cultures, including variation and change
• Political Science is an academic discipline that deals with the study of government and political processes, institutions, and behaviors.
• The word Politics originated from the Greek word, Polis, which means city or state. It refers to the art and science of governing city/state.
• The Government is the agency to which the will of the state is formulated, expressed, and carried out
• A state is a political concept. It refers to 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 refers to an ethnic concept. It means that people are bound together by common ethnical elements such as race, language and culture.
• Areas of Anthropology (CLABA)

  1. Cultural Anthropology
  2. Linguistic Anthropology
  3. Archaeology
  4. Biological Anthropology
  5. Applied Anthropology