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Socious

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Etymology; Latin: Associate/Companion

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Logus

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Etymology; Greek: Study/Science

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Sociology

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Study of associations, or more broadly, the study of HUMAN SOCIETY.

May be defined as the study of HUMAN SOCIAL BEHAVIOR (social interaction)

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Sociological Sub-Fields

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1. Social Organisation

2. Social Psychology

3. Socio-cultural Change and Social Disorganisation

4. Demography or Pop. Study

5. Human Ecology

6. Sociological Theory and Method

7. Applied Sociology

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Social Organization

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Includes the study of social groups, social institutions, ethnic relations, and bureaucracy.

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Social Psychology

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This are studies of human nature and personality as the product of group life. It explains how an individual's behavior is controlled, influenced or limited by the social groups of which one is member.

Study of social attitudes and collective behavior.

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Socio-cultural Change and Social disorganization

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This area is concerned with the changes in culture and social processes.

Also studies the social issues involved as in nat'l dev't, environmental degradation, etc.

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Demography or Population Study

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Analyses population number, composition change and quality as they're influenced by social and cultural factors.

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Human Ecology

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This area investigates human population in relation to their environment and the emergence of spatial relations between them.

Concerned with the development of cultural and social activity within the human population...

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Sociological Theory and Method

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This includes the principles of theory construction and theory verification.

Shows the relationship bet. theory and research in understanding our social world.

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Applied Sociology

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This is concerned with the application of the findings of pure sociological research to the various aspects and problems of our social life.

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Anthropos

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Etymology; Greek: Man/Human Being

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Logus

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Etymology; Greek: Reason/Study/Science

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Anthropology

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Study of Man or Human Beings

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Anthropology (divided into four main specialties)

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1. Physical (Biological) anthropology

2. Social and Cultural Anthropology

3. Archeology

4. Anthropological Linguistics

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Physical (Bio) Anthropology

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Thi area deals with human evolutionary development, human genetics, the former and structure of human population such as human physical and sex differences.

Scholars in this field are required to have a good understanding of the bio sciences esp. zoology, anatomy, physiology and genetics.

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Social and Cultural Anthropology

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This area is concerned with the history and development of human societies and culture.

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Social Anthropology

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Usually used by the British anthropologists for focusing largely on social processes, social org, and society.

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Cultural Anthropology

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Generally used by the American anthropologists for focusing on the concept of culture and cultural groups.

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Ethnographers

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Anthropologists who study the culture or aspects within the context of a particular society.

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Ethnologists

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The comparative analysis of structure and functioning of different societies and cultures.

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Archeology

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Branch of cultural Anthropology that deals with the reconstruction of the pat events in order to understand the development of culture.

Usually based on artifacts, material objects, pieces of art...

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Anthropological Linguistics

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This area deals with the study of human language and it's structure, function, and development.

Analyzes relationship between language and culture and hist. relationships bet. languages

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Academic disciplines that are considered as social sciences

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a. Sociology

b. Anthropology

c. Psychology

d. History

e. Political Science

All have one common subject matter, that is, human social behavior.

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The structural-functional theory was explained by;

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Bronislaw Malinowski, Ralph Linton, and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown

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What is the difference of Sociology and Anthropology in terms if research method?

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Sociology usually uses sampling and sample survey in it'd quantitative research studies.

Anthropology usually depends on participant observation, a res. technique that requires scholar to stay for at least six months to 1 yr. in area of study.

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The field in w/c anthropology and sociology share their findings concerning human behavior

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Psychology

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Anthropology sub-field where psychologists and anthropologists work together; Interested in human nature and personality

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Psychological Anthropology

Opposite Term: Social Psychology

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Economics

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Science of production, distribution and consumption of goods and services.

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Economic Anthropology

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Interested in the economic activities of cultural communities or ethnic groups borrowing economic concepts for the analysis of the economies of different societies.