SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Trevor Pinch, Hieratic, Nacirema

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Nathan Young

Document Summary

Sociology an related disciplines of the social sciences: an overview. From the greek philia and sops (lover of wisdom) it is not a social science it is an enquiry to the grand questions such as: what is nature, what is life, what is knowledge no de nitive answer. From the greek logos and push (psyche-science of the soul) behaviour of individual humans (generally under experimental conditions) For example, he might be coming from a single parent household. From the greek logos (sciences) and anthropoid (man, mankind the science of man) Two branches: physical anthology, and cultural anthropology (ethology) studies the biological adaptations, variability, and evolutions of human beings, and their living and fossil relatives both a biological science and social science. "powa centa" and "wah mah" (huge religious temples) Nacirema males notoriously warlike pay massive yearly tributes to a great fetish-figure called "terror" consume a large part of their resources.