The Essence o Anthropology,
Political Science, and Sociology
Anthropology
Anthoropologist
The study of human beings and their ancestors
Produces knowledge about what makes people
different from one another and what they all share
in common.
The four fields of anthoropology
Physical Anthropology – focuses on human
as biological organisms, tracking evolutionary
development and looking at biological variations.
Cultural Anthropology – investigates the
contrasting ways how groups of people think, feel and
behave.
> Linguistic Anthropology – study at nature and
nuances of languages communication system by
which cultures.
> Acheology Anthoropology – tries to recover
informations about human cultures often from
the pail by studying materials samples, skeletal
remains and settlements.
Political Science
> is the body of knowledge relating to the study the
state and government.
Primarily focuses on the power – local, regional,
national and international.
> Political power divided into 2: Central power
and local power.
> CENTRAL POWER - Executive and judiciary
> LOCAL POWER – governors of the provinces,
mayors, cities and municipalities and barangay
captains of villages
Sociology
Is considered the science of society and socila behavior. Which is
viewed as an aggregate of indivuals.
Sociology deals with perspective. Which is fundamental in the study
of various activities of human beings.
The discipline tries to provide a valid awareness of relationship
between private experiences and wider society.
Your character depends on the persons around you. You can adapt
their personalities such as like father like son. Your family has the
big impact to your personality.
Many consider suicide as personal choice. But a sociologist looks at
it differently by the various impersonal social forces at work in such
as a destructive act.
SUMMARY
A bulk of anthropologists knowledge particularly on ethnography can
shed light and even provide answer to certain problems w/c political
science have deal with. The political analysis of various political
parties in the country cannot be detached from their relationship to
social classes. The sociology of the electorate saves the difficulties
emerging form the basis democratic mechanisms.
to sum it up. It is important for every individual to have a
knowledge about Anthropology, Political Science and Sociology
because it makes us more aware, sensitive and will be able to learn
a basic assumptions of human beings about life