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    Social science studies society and human behavior and aims to answer questions and solve problems to improve the human condition despite differences. The document focuses on anthropology, sociology, and political science. Anthropology is defined as the scientific study of humans and includes the subfields of archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and applied anthropology. Archaeology examines ancient human remains, biological anthropology studies human origins and variation, cultural anthropology studies cultures and beliefs, linguistic anthropology examines language and its relation to culture, and applied anthropology seeks to address contemporary problems.

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    Social science studies society and human behavior and aims to answer questions and solve problems to improve the human condition despite differences. The document focuses on anthropology, sociology, and political science. Anthropology is defined as the scientific study of humans and includes the subfields of archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and applied anthropology. Archaeology examines ancient human remains, biological anthropology studies human origins and variation, cultural anthropology studies cultures and beliefs, linguistic anthropology examines language and its relation to culture, and applied anthropology seeks to address contemporary problems.

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    Social science studies society and human behavior and aims to answer questions and solve problems to improve the human condition despite differences. The document focuses on anthropology, sociology, and political science. Anthropology is defined as the scientific study of humans and includes the subfields of archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and applied anthropology. Archaeology examines ancient human remains, biological anthropology studies human origins and variation, cultural anthropology studies cultures and beliefs, linguistic anthropology examines language and its relation to culture, and applied anthropology seeks to address contemporary problems.

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    UNDERSTAND

    ING
    CULTURE,
    SOCIETY AND
    POLITICS

    Welcome!!!
    SOCIAL
    SCIENCE Studies the society and the manner
    which people behave and influence
    the world around us.

    Its goal is to answer different


    questions and find solutions to
    problems of the society to improve
    human condition despite cultural,
    social and political differences.
    FIELDS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

    HISTORY ECONOMICS ANTHROPOLOGY SOCIOLOGY

    POLITICAL
    GEOGRAPHY PSYCHOLOGY
    SCIENCE
    OUR FOCUS
    ARE THE FIELDS ANTHROPOLOGY
    OF
    SOCIOLOGY

    POLITICAL
    SCIENCE
    ANTHROPOLOGY

    • The holistic “science of man”, a science of the totality of human existence.

    • a branch of sociology that describes human, human behavior and human societies around the world.
    It is a comparative science that examines all societies.

    • The term anthropology comes from Latin world ‘Anthropos’ means man or human and ‘logos’
    means science or study. So, the term anthropology means scientific study of man or human
    beings.
    OTHER “Anthropology the study of human kind
    DEFINITIONS everywhere, throughout time, seeks to
    produce useful generations about people
    FROM and their behavior and to arrive at the
    ANTHROPOLOGIS fullest possible understanding of human
    diversity” (Havilland, W. A.1975)
    TS

    “Anthropology is the study of people and


    all the things they do, think, say and make"
    (Gwynne and Hicks, 1994).
    OTHER “Anthropology can be defined as “the
    DEFINITIONS study of people – their origins, their
    development, and contemporary
    FROM variations, wherever and whenever they
    ANTHROPOLOGIS have been found on the fact of the earth”
    (Ember, Ember, and peregrine, 2010
    TS
    “Anthropology is the study of human
    beings, divided into the branches of
    biologically oriented, physical
    anthropology and social oriented, social
    anthropology” (Jary and Jary, 2005).
    FIVE SUBFIELDS • ARCHAELOGY

    OF
    • BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
    • CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
    ANTHROPOLOGY • LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
    • APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY
    5 SUB-
    FIELDS
    ARCHAELOGY

    • Examines the remains


    of ancient and historical
    human populations to
    promote an
    understanding of how
    humans adapted to their
    environment and
    developed.
    BIOLOGICAL Looks into the
    ANTHROPOLOGY Biological Biological anthropology is the study of human
    Development origins, evolution, and variation. Some
    of Humans and biological anthropologists focus on our closest
    their
    contemporary living relatives, monkeys and apes.
    variation.

    Biological anthropologists who study ancient


    human relatives are
    called paleoanthropologists.

    Field of palaeoanthropology changes rapidly


    as fossil discoveries and refined dating
    techniques offer new clues into our past.
    CULTURAL
    ANTHROPOLOGY

    • Promote to study of a
    society’s culture through
    their belief systems,
    practices, and possessions.
    LINGUISTIC
    ANTHROPOLOGY

    • Examines the
    language of a
    group of people
    and its relation to
    their culture.
    AREAS OF Linguistic anthropology is the study of languages, ancient and modern

    STUDY UNDER written form, talking style etc. it divided into three part those are given
    below:

    LINGUISTIC Historical linguistic: Historical linguistic may also deals with the history of

    ANTHROPOLO
    the language. The process of finding historical linguistic is called
    ‘Diachronomical’. It deals with such factors: Words living language, Dead
    language.

    GY
    Socio linguistics: The study of how language is used in social context and it
    is acceptable by everybody.

    Descriptive structural: It incorporates how contemporary languages differ


    specially in their construction. Ex: sounds, grammar meaning.
    APPLIED
    ANTHROPOLOGY

    • Attempts to solve
    contemporary
    problems through
    the application of
    theories and
    approaches of the
    discipline
    BREAK TIME
    ANY
    QUESTIONS?
    IF NONE, I WILL
    BE THE ONE TO
    ASK
    QUESTIONS
    QUESTIONS TO Why is it important for us to
    study Social Science?
    BE PONDERED
    WITH
    What relevance does the
    investigation of the remains of
    historical people would bring us
    in today’s generation?

    Do you think studying


    Anthropology could better our
    culture in general? Why?
    THANK YOU AND HAVE A GREAT DAY !

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