The document discusses key concepts in anthropology, sociology, and political science. It defines culture as shared beliefs, practices, and knowledge that are learned and shared within a society. Society is defined as a group of people who share a common territory and culture. Politics involves governance and conflicts over power. The goals of anthropology are to understand human evolution, cultural variations, and how humans adapt to different environments. Anthropologists use a holistic and comparative approach and the method of fieldwork to understand cultures from the perspective of cultural relativism.
The document discusses key concepts in anthropology, sociology, and political science. It defines culture as shared beliefs, practices, and knowledge that are learned and shared within a society. Society is defined as a group of people who share a common territory and culture. Politics involves governance and conflicts over power. The goals of anthropology are to understand human evolution, cultural variations, and how humans adapt to different environments. Anthropologists use a holistic and comparative approach and the method of fieldwork to understand cultures from the perspective of cultural relativism.
The document discusses key concepts in anthropology, sociology, and political science. It defines culture as shared beliefs, practices, and knowledge that are learned and shared within a society. Society is defined as a group of people who share a common territory and culture. Politics involves governance and conflicts over power. The goals of anthropology are to understand human evolution, cultural variations, and how humans adapt to different environments. Anthropologists use a holistic and comparative approach and the method of fieldwork to understand cultures from the perspective of cultural relativism.
The document discusses key concepts in anthropology, sociology, and political science. It defines culture as shared beliefs, practices, and knowledge that are learned and shared within a society. Society is defined as a group of people who share a common territory and culture. Politics involves governance and conflicts over power. The goals of anthropology are to understand human evolution, cultural variations, and how humans adapt to different environments. Anthropologists use a holistic and comparative approach and the method of fieldwork to understand cultures from the perspective of cultural relativism.
At the end of the chapter, the students must have:
1. Articulated observation on human cultural variations, social change, and
political identities 2. Demonstrated curiosity and an openness to explore the origins and dynamics of culture and society and political identities 3. Analyzed social, political, and cultural change 4. Recognized the common concerns or intersections of anthropology, sociology, and political science with respect to the phenomenon of change 5. Identified the subjects of inquiry and goals of anthropology, sociology , and political science Culture- is an umbrella term that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups. Culture is often originated from or attributed to a specific region or location. Culture is defined as “that complex whole which encompasses beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, laws, norms, artifacts, symbols, knowledge, and everything that a person learns and shares as a member of a society” (Taylor, 2010). Society- a society is a group of people with common territory, interaction, and culture. Arcinas (2016) in his book, Undertanding Culture, Society, and Politics, defined society as group of people who share a common territory and culture. Politics - activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power. Anthropology is the study, analysis, and description of humanity’s past and present. Questions about the past include prehistoric origins and human evolution. All in all Anthropology, "the study of humankind," which examines people in viewpoints going from the science and transformative history of Homo sapiens to the provisions of society and culture that unequivocally recognize people from other creature species. Nature of Anthropology The nature of anthropology can be view from its historical perspective because of a global discipline involving humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Its foundations return to the scholarly Enlightenment of the eighteenth and mid-nineteenth hundreds of years in Europe and North America. As European countries created states in far-off places of the world and Americans extended west and south into the regions of Indians, it became evident to them that humankind was amazingly changed. Anthropology started, partially, as an endeavor by individuals from logical social orders to unbiasedly record and grasp this variety. Curiosity in bizarre individuals and customs in distant pieces of the world is the thing that principally roused these early beginner anthropologists. Goals of Anthropology ❑ is to comprehend the fossil record of early people and their precursors just as the archeological record of later ancient social orders. ❑ to understand how we adapt to different environmental conditions and how we vary as a species. ❑ to comprehend the conduct of monkeys and gorillas in their regular settings. ❑ is to find out about both the natural and social parts of humankind all throughout the planet and all through time. ❑ to apply anthropological information to help forestall or take care of issues of living people groups, including destitution, substance addiction, and HIV/AIDS. Perspective of Anthropology
Holism -Anthropologists are keen all in all of mankind,
in how different parts of life connect. One can't completely see the value in being human by contemplating a solitary part of our mind-boggling narratives, dialects, bodies, or social orders. By utilizing a comprehensive methodology, anthropologists request how various angles from human existence impact each other. Perspective of Anthropology
Cultural Relativism - the possibility that we should try to
comprehend someone else's convictions and practices according to the viewpoint of their way of life as opposed to our own.
Anthropologists don't pass judgment on different societies
dependent on their qualities nor do they see alternate methods of getting things done as second rate. All things being equal, anthropologists try to comprehend individuals' convictions inside the framework they have for clarifying things. Perspective of Anthropology
Comparison - In cultural anthropology, we compare
ideas, morals, practices, and systems within or between cultures. We might compare the roles of men and women in different societies, or contrast how different religious groups conflict within a given society Perspective of Anthropology
Field work - In Cultural Anthropology, field work is
alluded to as ethnography, which is both the interaction and aftereffect of social anthropological examination. The Greek expression "ethno" alludes to individuals, and "graphy" alludes to composing. The ethnographic interaction includes the exploration technique for member perception hands on work: you partake in individuals' lives, while noticing them and taking field takes note of that, alongside interviews and reviews, establish the examination information.