ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTHROPOLOGY
What does it mean to be
human?
ANTHROPOLOGY
What does it mean to be
human?
Who are you?
ANTHROPOLOGY
What does it mean to be
human?
Who are you?
Where do you come from?
ANTHROPOLOGY
Where did it start?
ANTHROPOLOGY
Where did it start?
It started as a science during the time
of exploration when European
countries started to colonize what
they considered as primitive societies
where people were believed to be
savages and barbaric.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Where did it start?
During their colonial encounter
with these people, Europeans
started to make written records
about Non-Europeans.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Where did it start?
They focus on kinship,
language, race, religion,
cultural perceptions, and
others.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Who started this field?
Franz Boas – father of modern
Anthropology
ANTHROPOLOGY
Who started this field?
Franz Boas – father of modern
Anthropology
Stated that each society is considered as
having a unique form of culture that
cannot be understood under an overall
definition of general culture.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Concept
Anthropology is the study of
people and their culture.
Anthropologists are required to live with
their subject of study for a long period of
time in order to make their writings more
reliable and credible.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Subjects of Inquiry
Biological Anthropology
Refers to the study of human
origins (genetics, race,
evolutions, fossils, primates)
ANTHROPOLOGY
Subjects of Inquiry
Cultural Anthropology
Study of living people (religion,
social system, language,
clothing, foods, beliefs,
traditions)
ANTHROPOLOGY
Subjects of Inquiry
Linguistics
Study of language, its
evolution, its connection to
other languages, and others.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Subjects of Inquiry
Archeology
Refers to the study of dead
culture (religion, social system,
language, how they dress,
foods, beliefs, traditions, etc.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Goals
See the commonalities
among people (tradition,
language, kinship, etc.)
ANTHROPOLOGY
Goals
Look at what makes us the
same to understand more
about human nature.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Goals
Discover what makes
people different from each
other in order to
understand and preserve
diversity.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Goals
Produce new knowledge
and new theories about
mankind and behavior.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Goals
Look at one’s own culture
more objectively.
SOCIOLOGY
SOCIOLOGY
How do we study society?
SOCIOLOGY
How do we study society?
What are the things that you
think influence your life?
SOCIOLOGY
How do we study society?
What are the things that you
think influence your life?
What is life to people living in
places with different culture and
behavior?
SOCIOLOGY
It emerged as an academic field
right at the height of the Industrial
Revolution in Europe which
mobilized the entire population in a
way that had never been before in
human history.
SOCIOLOGY
This era had brought great
changes in the way people live
in a society.
SOCIOLOGY
Sociology started as the study of
European society by European
people
SOCIOLOGY
During that time, emerging
institutions arose and replaced the
old ones such as how science was
taking over religion, when the reign
of kings and queens fell down, and
when the era of feudalism had
ended.
SOCIOLOGY
People saw the importance of
studying these emerging institutions
and how they started and what
impact they could make to an
individual and the new society in
general.
SOCIOLOGY
Who started this field?
Auguste Comte – French
philosopher and mathematician.
SOCIOLOGY
Who started this field?
Auguste Comte – French
philosopher and mathematician.
He coined the term sociology. He
saw the need for a systematic
science of studying society in dealing
with the solution of its basic problems.
SOCIOLOGY
Concept
It is the study of society,
patterns of social interactions,
and culture of everyday life.
SOCIOLOGY
Subject inquiry
Anything in a society that
influences people’s lives can
be subjects of inquiry, life
different social phenomena,
issues and problems.
SOCIOLOGY
Subject inquiry
Sociologists can also look into
things that influence life like family
background, socio-economic
status, ethnicity, social classes,
religion, gender, beliefs, traditions,
norms, etc.
SOCIOLOGY
Goal
Obtain possible theories and
principles about society as well as
various aspects of social life.
SOCIOLOGY
Goal
Study the nature of humanity to
further examine our roles within a
society.
SOCIOLOGY
Goal
Appreciate that all things in
society are interdependent.
SOCIOLOGY
Goal
Expose our minds to different
perspectives in attaining truth.
POLITICAL
SCIENCE
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Origin
It started with ancient Greeks
where Aristotle stated that “Man
by nature is a political animal.”
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Origin
It means that it is our nature to
live in a society and to have
power over another.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Concept
Systematic study of
government, politics, and
political power.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Concept
It is often defined as who gets
what, when, where and how.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Subjects of inquiry
Political theory, philosophy and
different political ideology,
public management, human
rights, international relations
and foreign policies
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Goals
• Make people a better citizen
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Goals
• Make people a better citizen
• Keep social order and harmony
among different people.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Goals
• Make people a better citizen
• Keep social order and harmony
among different people.
• Protect the rights of an individual
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Goals
• Make people a better citizen
• Keep social order and harmony
among different people.
• Protect the rights of an individual
• Avoid conflict and promote
cooperation
