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Emergence of each
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Anthropology
the study of all aspects of human
life and culture. Anthropology
examines such topics as how
people live, what they think, what
they produce, and how they
interact with their environments.
Anthropologists try to understand
the full range of human diversity
Fields of Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Linguistic Anthropology
Archaeology
Physical Anthropology
Anthropology: QUESTIONS
ASKED
Anthropologists ask such basic questions
as: When, where, and how did humans
evolve? How do people adapt to different
environments? How have societies
developed and changed from the ancient
past to the present? Answers to these
questions can help us understand what it
means to be human. They can also help us
to learn ways to meet the present-day
needs of people all over the world and to
Anthropology: Historical
Background
The European Age of Enlightenment of the 17th
and 18th centuries marked the rise of scientific
and rational philosophical thought. Enlightenment
thinkers, such as Scottish-born David Hume, John
Locke of England, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau of
France, wrote a number of humanistic works on
the nature of humankind. They based their work
on philosophical reason rather than religious
authority and asked important anthropological
questions. Rousseau, for instance, wrote on the
moral qualities of primitive societies and about
human inequality. But most writers of the
ECONOMICS
Sociology, the
scientific study of
human social
relations or group
life.
Sociology: History
The first definition of sociology was
advanced by the French philosopher
Auguste Comte. In 1838 Comte coined the
term sociology to describe his vision of a
new science that would discover laws of
human society resembling the laws of
nature by applying the methods of factual
investigation that had proved so
successful in the physical sciences. The
British philosopher Herbert Spencer