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Culture is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.

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A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social, territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.

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Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations between individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.
Politics impacts our lives directly or indirectly, whether we are aware of its effects or not.

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Introduction to Sociology and Anthropology

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Introduction to Sociology and Anthropology

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, Political Science Instructor at Notre Dame of Dadiangas University

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Introduction to sociology and anthropology

1. 1. SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY

2. 2. SOCIOLOGY 2

3. 3. Sociology Today you may have thought about what to wear. But did you ask yourself where those garments came from, or who made them? Where am I wearing? 3 Video

4. 4. Sociology * Howard Becker defined sociology as the study of people "doing things together." * This reminds us that society and the individual are inherently connected, and each depends on the other. * Sociologists study this link: how society affects the individual and how the individual affects society. 4

5. 5. 5 Sociology is simply, the scientific study of social behavior and human groups focuses on social relationships on how those relationships influence people's behavior on how societies, the sum total of those relationships, develop and change.

6. 6. Cool Insights from Sociology Humans cannot be understood apart from social context (i.e. society) Society makes us who we are by structuring out interactions and laying out an orderly world before us Society is a social construction, that is, it is an idea created by humans through social interaction and given a reality through our understanding of it and our collective actions. 6

7. 7. Society Influences You Death... Related to society? Of course! 7

8. 8. Baby Names 8

9. 9. Names that have gained the most popularity, 2004 - 2010 9

10. 10. Sociological imagination an awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society, both today and in the past rather than only from the perspective of personal experiences and cultural biases. 10 key element is to view one's own society as an outsider would

11. 11. Example: Divorce Divorce, for example, is unquestionabl y a personal hardship for a husband and wife who split apart. However, C. Wright Mills advocated using the sociological imagination to view divorce not as simply an individual's personal problem but rather as a societal concern. Using this perspective, we can see that an increase in the divorce rate actually redefines a major social institution- the family. Today's households frequently include stepparents and halfsiblings whose parents have divorced and remarried. 11

12. 12. Scenario: * You are walking down the street in your city or hometown. In looking around you, you can't help noticing that half or more of the people you see are overweight. How do you explain your observation? 12

13. 13. ANTHROPOLOGY 13

14. 15. Anthropology * Comes from Greek words - anthropos * man/human - logos/logia * study

15. 16. Anthropology 16 * The science of humanity and its society * A scientific study - of humanity - the similarities and diversity of cultures, - it attempts to present an integrated picture of human kind

16. 17. human societies cultures communication - past and present

17. 18. Human Populations Biological and Cultural Differences Similarities What is anthropology?

18. 19. GUESS FROM WHAT COUNTRY 19

19. 20. 20 Canada India New Guinea China

20. 21. 21 Brazil Kenya New Guinea South Yemen

21. 22. In light of rapid technological advance, how different people from various parts of the world will appear a century from now? 22

22. 23. Unifying themes in Anthropology Universalism Integra tion Adaptation Holism 23

23. 24. Cultural Anthropology human society and culture - describes, analyzes, interprets and explains social and cultural similarities and differences

24. 25. 3 Main Branches of Cultural Anthropology * - reconstruct the daily life and customs of people who lived in the past and to trace and explain cultural changes. * - material remains Archaeology

25. 26. 3 Main Branches of Cultural Anthropology * changes that have taken place in language over time. * contemporary variations Anthropological Linguistics

26. 27. 3 Main Branches of Cultural Anthropology * how and why recent cultures differ and are similar * - patterns of thought and behavior such as marriage customs, kinship organization, religion, folk, art, music. 3. Ethnology

27. 28. 28 ANTHROPOLOGY Physical Archaeology Anthropological Linguistics Social/ Cultural * Paleoanthropology * Primatology * Human Genetics * Demography * Growth & Development * Osteology (Forensic) * Prehistoric * Historical * Contract * Historical * Descriptive * Sociolinguistics * ethnolinguistics * Economic * Kinship * Medical * Psychological * Urban * Applied * Gender * Political * Religion Cultural

28. 29. THINK ABOUT THIS!!! If one disturbs a woman in the bath, what body parts does she cover?

29. 30. According to Helen Colton (1983) Islamic woman FACE Prerevolutionary Chinese woman FEET Sumatran woman KNEES

30. 31. According to Helen Colton (1983) Laotian woman BREASTS Samoan woman NAVEL North American or European woman BREASTS and GENITAL AREA

31. 32. Compare and contrast anthropology and sociology * Pair activity 32

32. 33. END THANK YOU! 33

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Political Science Instructor at Notre Dame of Dadiangas University Published on Introduction to sociology and anthropology 1. SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY 2. SOCIOLOGY 2 3. Sociology Today you may have thought about what to wear. But did you ask yourself where those garments came from, or who made them? Where am I wearing?