SOCREVIEWER

• Anthropology


  Derived from the Greek words 'antropos' and 'logos' which intensively studies humans and the respective cultures
• Charles Darwin


  • One of the greatest naturalists in the history of science
• Franz Boas


  • Often considered as the father of modern American anthropology
• Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski


  • A Polish immigrant who did a comprehensive study of Trobriand Island
• Alfred Radcliffe-Brown


  • He advocated the study of abstract principle that govern social change
• Participant Observation


  A method of social science research that requires the anthropologists to have the ability to participate and blend with the way of life of a given group of people
• Ethnography


  The practice of writing about people, Anthropologists usually study cultures other than their own
• Historical Particularism


  An approach to understanding the nature of culture and cultural changes of specific populations of people
• Cultural Relativism


  The idea that a person's beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture, rather than be judged against the criteria of another
• Franz Boas was the first anthropologist to have rejected the biological basis of racism or racial discrimination
• Si Malakas at si Maganda


  Explains the genesis of man's group life in the Filipino context
• Society


  Used to describe a level of organization of groups that is relatively self-contaminated
• Nation-state


  Refer to abounded territory like Philippine society, albeit these two concepts are not completely synonymous
• Thomas Hobbes: 'Every individual had to fend for himself to enable him to survive'
• St. Thomas Aquinas: 'Social relationship then were forged, and behaviors were aligned toward the promotion of common interest or welfare'
• Auguste Comte


  • A French philosopher who first coined the word "sociology"
• Emile Durkheim


  • Another famous sociologist, defined sociology as "a reality in its right
• George Herbert Mead


  • He conceived society as an exchange of gestures which involves the use of symbol
• St. Thomas Aquinas: 'God loves man and man, in turn, learns to love others as well'
• Talcott Parsons


  He described the word society as "a total complex of human relationship in so far as they grow out of the action regarding means-end relationship intrinsic or symbol"