COMPARE AND CONTRAST BETWEEn SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY?

Question

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Answer 1

one studies social interactions

the other studies the history of man

you guess which is which.

Answer 2

a soc degree wont get you a job. neither will an anthro degree. discuss

Answer 3

Sociology is the study of modern western society and the interplay of people within those societies. Questions like 'is society there to serve individuals or are individuals to serve society?'

Anthropology looks at non-western peoples and cultures, from China and Asia, to remote tribes in the Amazon like the Yanomami, or the Hutus and Tutsis of Uganda.  It looks at kinship ties, law enforcement, relationships and hierarchies, how the economy is organised; wealth can be determined through cows or cowrie shells for example. Art and music and language.

Answer 4

"Anthropology" nowadays is not a very unified field. Biological or physical anthropology focuses on human physiology and evolutionary biology. On the other hand, both cultural anthropology and sociology focus on social behavior in contemporary human societies. The difference is mainy in research methods and emphasis. Cultural anthropologists tend to study small-scale social processes, using qualitative fieldwork (i.e., gathering information by talking with people!) done over a long period of time (months or years) in a particular cultural setting. Sociologists tend to study larger-scale processes and to rely a lot more on briefer periods of fieldwork and/or quantitative research (say, statistics). It is true that sociologists used to study modern Western societies and anthropologists used to focus on the non-West, but this is not a rule by any means.

Also, the idea of anthropology as the "holistic study of humanity" is in decline, as biological and cultural anthropology are moving in rapidly different directions nowadays. Archaeology and linguistics are also traditionally considered to be branches of anthropology, but more and more they are also acting like separate fields. Most anthropologists are cultural anthropologists - who do not study evolution or "the history of man," contrary to some of the other responses.

Answer 5

Sociology is the study of societies and how they function.  Anthropology is the holistic study of humans.  So a sociologist will be more interested in modern questions like why some racial groups have more money than others, while anthropologists will be more concerned about how societies evolve in the first place.  Also, anthropologists are not just concerned with the cultural/social aspect of humanity, but also the physical part as well (like why did some people evolve differently in certain environments.)