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The document discusses several social sciences including anthropology, sociology, and political science. Anthropology is defined as the study of human biology, culture, and social organization. It encompasses areas like social anthropology, cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and biological anthropology. Sociology is defined as the academic study of human social life, groups, and societies. Political science is the systematic study of politics and political processes and institutions. Key figures in the development of these fields are also mentioned.

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Ucsp Lesson 3

The document discusses several social sciences including anthropology, sociology, and political science. Anthropology is defined as the study of human biology, culture, and social organization. It encompasses areas like social anthropology, cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and biological anthropology. Sociology is defined as the academic study of human social life, groups, and societies. Political science is the systematic study of politics and political processes and institutions. Key figures in the development of these fields are also mentioned.

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Social sciences

The disciplines under which identity, culture.


Society and politics are studied .
Social Science

 Arecomprised of a wide array of


academic disciplines that the study of
the over all function of society as well
as the interactions among its
individual members and institutions.
ANTHROPOLOGY

 Isthe systematic study of the biological,


cultural, and social aspects of man.
 It
is derived from two Greek words
Anthropos w/c means “man” and logos w/c
means “study or inquiry”
RENOWNED ANTHROPOLOGISTS

 EDWARD BURNETT TAYLOR – English


Anthropologists
 FRANCE BOAS – Father of American
anthropology
 ALFRED KOEBER- American cultural
anthropologists
 CLIFFORD GEERTZ - American anthropologists
 MARGARET MEAD
AREAS OF INTEREST

 SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
 CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
 LINGUISTICANTHROPOLOGY
 BIOLOGICAL OR PHYSICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
SOCIAL ANHTHROPOLOGY

Studies how social patterns


and practices and cultural
variations develop across
societies.
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Studies cultural variation across


different societies and
examines the need to
understand each culture in its
own context.
LINGUISTIC
ANTHROPOLOGY
 Studieslanguage and discourse and
how they reflect and shape different
aspects of human society and culture
BIOLOGICAL OR PHYSICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
 Studiesthe origins of human s as well as
the interplay between social factors and
processes of human evolution, adaptation
and variation over time
ARCHAEOLOGY

DEALSWITH PREHISTORIC
SOCIETIES STUDYING THEIR
TOOLS AND ENVIRONMENT
SOCIOLOGY
Isdefined by Anthony
Giddens as the study of
human social life, groups,
and society
 Itis an academic discipline that
attempts to provide a deeper
assessment of individual and group
behavior, as well as social phenomena,
by examining the interplay between
economic, political and social factors
 AUGUST COMTE – Father of sociology
 HERBERT SPENCER
 EMILE DURKHEIM – was the pioneer
functionalism in sociology
 KARL MARX – considered as the father of
scientific socialism
 MAX WEBER – was the pioneer of
interpretive sociology
POLITICAL SCIENCE
 Isthe systematic study of politics, which
Andrew Heywood describes as the “activity
through the people make preserve, and
amend the general rules.
 Focuses on the fundamental values of
equality, freedom, and justice and its
processes are linked to the dynamics of
conflict, resolution and cooperation
Various areas of Interest

 Public administration – which examines how the


government functions and how decisions and
policies are made.
 Political Economy – which evaluates the interplay
between economics, politics, and law and its
implications to the various institutions within
society
 Comparative politics – compares domestic politics
and governance systems across different sovereign
states.

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