SOCY 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Behavioral Neuroscience
23 May 2016
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Psychology: the science of the mind (mind of the individual, not some collective) Personality and social psychology: effects of society on the individual; group process. Developmental psychology: psychological changes throughout the life span. Anthropology: the science of humankind (concerned with all human behavior) Biological anthropology: study of structure and evolution of human body. Cultural anthropology: study of human societies and social organization. Linguistics: study of language, languages, and language groups. Archeology: study of human societies on basis of physical residues they leave behind. Sociologists tend to be more willing to look at a small part of society: anthropologists want to see how it all hangs together. It is dif cult is less likely to generalise from n of 1. Sociologists tend to know a lot more about one society; anthropologists know about many. Sociobiology: the science concerned with the biological bases of social behavior (behavioral genetics) Sociobiologists are sometimes accused of being biological or genetic determinists.
