ENG 2131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sophos, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 2131
• Professor: Rosemary Daniels

Document Summary

Sociology and related disciplines of the social sciences : an overview: sociology is the systematic study of human society and social interaction: From the study of dyads (two person groups) to entire societies: each other social sciences has its own distinct focus: Speci c segments of social life and human behaviour. Philosophy: our mother to us all . , from the greek philia and sophos (lover of wisdom, many questions with no de nitive answers. Psychology: from the greek logos and psukho (psyche - science of the soul, subject matter: Behaviour of individual humans (generally under experimental conditions: focus: Processes internal to the individual to determine what in uences people: a boundary discipline: social psychology: The study of individual behaviour in small groups. Comparative example : turbulent school children in a classroom: psychological explanation: personality of the kids, social psychology: surrounding environment.