intro ucsp.pptx
- 3. The social sciences Society in its broader sense involves social (i.e,. Actions and interaction) Cultural (i.e,. Practices and traditions) Political (i,e,. Power relations) As the formal and systematic studies of society, these three facet are referred to as “social science”, also known in academia as “discipline”
- 7. What’s is your culture? And it’s background? (gender, socioeconomic class, ethnicity,religion exceptionality or non- exemptionality) Observation about social, political and cultural behavior and phenomena (eg. Food, taboos, istambay, political dynasties, elections)
- 14. What is Anthropology? • Anthropology is the study of what makes us human • take a broad approach to understanding the many different aspects of the human experience, which we call holism. • They consider the past, through archaeology, to see how human groups lived hundreds or thousands of years ago and what was important to them. • They consider what makes up our biological bodies and genetics, as well as our bones, diet, and health.
- 15. The Four Subfields • Archaeology - study human culture by analyzing the objects people have made, such things as pottery and tools, and they map the locations of houses, trash pits, and burials in order to learn about the daily lives of a people • Biological Anthropology - to understand how humans adapt to different environments, what causes disease and early death, and how humans evolved from other animals. To do this, they study humans (living and dead), other primates such as monkeys and apes, and human ancestors (fossils).
- 16. • Cultural Anthropology - Sociocultural anthropologists explore how people in different places live and understand the world around them. they want to know what people think is important and the rules they make about how they should interact with one another • Linguistic Anthropology - study the many ways people communicate across the globe. They are interested in how language is linked to how we see the world and how we relate to each other. This can mean looking at how language works in all its different forms, and how it changes over time