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SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY

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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?

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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

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Sociology

is simply, the scientific study of social behavior and human groups focuses on social relationships

on how those relationships influence people’s behavioron how societies, the sum total of those relationships, develop and change.

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

Society Influences

You

Death… Related to society? Of course!

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Baby Names 8

Names that have

gained the most

popularity, 2004 –

20109

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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.

key element is to view one’s own society as an outsider would

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Example:Divorce

Divorce, for example, is unquestiona

bly 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.

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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?

13ANTHROPOLOGY

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Anthropology

• Comes from Greek words– anthropos • man/human

– logos/logia • study

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Anthropology

• 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

Anthropology examines

human societies

cultures

communication – past and present

Human Populations

Biological and Cultural

Differences Similarities

What is anthropology?

19GUESS FROM WHAT COUNTRY

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Canada India

New Guine

aChina

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Brazil Kenya

New Guinea

South Yeme

n

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In light of rapid

technological advance, how

different people from various

parts of the world will appear a century from

now?

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Unifying themes in

Anthropology

Universalism

Integration

Adaptation

Holism

Cultural Anthropolog

y

human society and culture

- describes, analyzes, interprets and explains social and cultural similarities and differences

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

3 Main Branches of

Cultural Anthropology • changes

that have taken place in language over time.

• contemporary variations

Anthropological Linguistics

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

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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

THINK ABOUT THIS!!!

If one disturbs a woman in the bath,

what body parts does she cover?

According to Helen

Colton (1983)

Islamic woman FACEPrerevolutionary Chinese woman FEETSumatran woman KNEES

According to Helen

Colton (1983)

Laotian woman BREASTS

Samoan woman NAVEL

North American or European woman

BREASTS and GENITAL AREA

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Compare and contrast anthropolog

y and sociology

• Pair activity

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