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    The document discusses key concepts in anthropology, sociology, and political science. It defines culture as shared beliefs, practices, and knowledge that are learned and shared within a society. Society is defined as a group of people who share a common territory and culture. Politics involves governance and conflicts over power. The goals of anthropology are to understand human evolution, cultural variations, and how humans adapt to different environments. Anthropologists use a holistic and comparative approach and the method of fieldwork to understand cultures from the perspective of cultural relativism.

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    The document discusses key concepts in anthropology, sociology, and political science. It defines culture as shared beliefs, practices, and knowledge that are learned and shared within a society. Society is defined as a group of people who share a common territory and culture. Politics involves governance and conflicts over power. The goals of anthropology are to understand human evolution, cultural variations, and how humans adapt to different environments. Anthropologists use a holistic and comparative approach and the method of fieldwork to understand cultures from the perspective of cultural relativism.

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    The document discusses key concepts in anthropology, sociology, and political science. It defines culture as shared beliefs, practices, and knowledge that are learned and shared within a society. Society is defined as a group of people who share a common territory and culture. Politics involves governance and conflicts over power. The goals of anthropology are to understand human evolution, cultural variations, and how humans adapt to different environments. Anthropologists use a holistic and comparative approach and the method of fieldwork to understand cultures from the perspective of cultural relativism.

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    At the end of the chapter, the students must have:

    1. Articulated observation on human cultural variations, social change, and


    political identities
    2. Demonstrated curiosity and an openness to explore the origins and
    dynamics of culture and society and political identities
    3. Analyzed social, political, and cultural change
    4. Recognized the common concerns or intersections of anthropology,
    sociology, and political science with respect to the phenomenon of
    change
    5. Identified the subjects of inquiry and goals of anthropology, sociology
    , and political science
    Culture- is an umbrella term that encompasses
    the social behavior, institutions, and norms found
    in human societies, as well as the knowledge,
    beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits
    of the individuals in these groups. Culture is often
    originated from or attributed to a specific region or
    location.
    Culture is defined as “that complex whole
    which encompasses beliefs, practices, values,
    attitudes, laws, norms, artifacts, symbols,
    knowledge, and everything that a person
    learns and shares as a member of a society”
    (Taylor, 2010).
    Society- a society is a group of people with
    common territory, interaction, and culture. Arcinas
    (2016) in his book, Undertanding Culture, Society,
    and Politics, defined society as group of people
    who share a common territory and culture.
    Politics - activities associated with the
    governance of a country or other area,
    especially the debate or conflict among
    individuals or parties having or hoping to
    achieve power.
    Anthropology is the study, analysis, and
    description of humanity’s past and present. Questions
    about the past include prehistoric origins and human
    evolution.
    All in all Anthropology, "the study of humankind,"
    which examines people in viewpoints going from the
    science and transformative history of Homo sapiens to
    the provisions of society and culture that unequivocally
    recognize people from other creature species.
    Nature of Anthropology
    The nature of anthropology can be view from its historical perspective
    because of a global discipline involving humanities, social sciences and natural
    sciences. Its foundations return to the scholarly Enlightenment of the
    eighteenth and mid-nineteenth hundreds of years in Europe and North
    America. As European countries created states in far-off places of the world
    and Americans extended west and south into the regions of Indians, it became
    evident to them that humankind was amazingly changed.
    Anthropology started, partially, as an endeavor by individuals from
    logical social orders to unbiasedly record and grasp this variety. Curiosity in
    bizarre individuals and customs in distant pieces of the world is the thing that
    principally roused these early beginner anthropologists.
    Goals of Anthropology
    ❑ is to comprehend the fossil record of early people and their precursors
    just as the archeological record of later ancient social orders.
    ❑ to understand how we adapt to different environmental conditions and
    how we vary as a species.
    ❑ to comprehend the conduct of monkeys and gorillas in their regular
    settings.
    ❑ is to find out about both the natural and social parts of humankind all
    throughout the planet and all through time.
    ❑ to apply anthropological information to help forestall or take care of
    issues of living people groups, including destitution, substance addiction,
    and HIV/AIDS.
    Perspective of Anthropology

    Holism -Anthropologists are keen all in all of mankind,


    in how different parts of life connect. One can't
    completely see the value in being human by
    contemplating a solitary part of our mind-boggling
    narratives, dialects, bodies, or social orders. By utilizing a
    comprehensive methodology, anthropologists request
    how various angles from human existence impact each
    other.
    Perspective of Anthropology

    Cultural Relativism - the possibility that we should try to


    comprehend someone else's convictions and practices according
    to the viewpoint of their way of life as opposed to our own.

    Anthropologists don't pass judgment on different societies


    dependent on their qualities nor do they see alternate methods
    of getting things done as second rate. All things being equal,
    anthropologists try to comprehend individuals' convictions inside
    the framework they have for clarifying things.
    Perspective of Anthropology

    Comparison - In cultural anthropology, we compare


    ideas, morals, practices, and systems within or between
    cultures. We might compare the roles of men and women
    in different societies, or contrast how different religious
    groups conflict within a given society
    Perspective of Anthropology

    Field work - In Cultural Anthropology, field work is


    alluded to as ethnography, which is both the interaction and
    aftereffect of social anthropological examination. The Greek
    expression "ethno" alludes to individuals, and "graphy" alludes
    to composing. The ethnographic interaction includes the
    exploration technique for member perception hands on work:
    you partake in individuals' lives, while noticing them and taking
    field takes note of that, alongside interviews and reviews,
    establish the examination information.

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