1. The document discusses the key concepts of anthropology, sociology, and political science. Anthropology is defined as the study of humanity, sociology as the systematic study of groups and societies, and political science as the study of government and political processes. 2. The document outlines the goals of anthropology which include understanding commonalities between all humans, producing new knowledge about human behavior, and preserving cultural diversity. 3. The main fields and branches of each discipline are summarized. For anthropology, the fields include cultural, linguistic, archaeology, and biological anthropology. For sociology, the branches discussed are social organization, social psychology, applied sociology, and social change.

1. MS. ANTONETTE C. ALBINA
ANTHROPOLO
GY,
SOCIOLOGY
,
AND
POLITICAL
Science

2. The Trio Concepts:

3. Pre-Assessment:
Read each of the following item carefully and write only the
letter which corresponds to the correct answer.

5. Anthropology
It includes topics such as
human origin, globalization,
social change, and world
history.
It is the study of humankind
in all times and all places.
It is the study of humanity
including our prehistoric
origins and contemporary
human diversity.

6. Goals of Anthropology
• Discover what all people have in common – By studying
commonalities (folklores, traditions, language, etc.) in all
humanity, we could understand more about the human’s
nature.
What it means to be
a human?

7. Goals of Anthropology
• Produce new knowledge and new
theories about humankind and
human behavior – This new
knowledge is then applied in an
attempt to alleviate human
challenges.

8. Goals of Anthropology
• Discover what makes people
different from one another in order
to understand and preserve diversity
– Anthropology attempts to answer
questions:
“What does it mean to be a Filipino
and a citizen of the world?”

9. Goals of Anthropology
• Look at one’s own culture more
objectively like an outsider – It aims
to make “the strange familiar and
the familiar strange.”

10. FIELDS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
CUL
TURALANTHROPOLOGY
Refers to the study of living people and their cultures including
variation and change. It deals with the description and analysis of the
forms and styles and the social lives of past and present ages

11. FIELDS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
LINGUISTIC
ANTHROPOLOGY
Refers to the study of communication,
mainly but not exclusively among humans. It
includes the study of communication’s
origin, history and contemporary variation.

12. FIELDS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
ARCHAEOLOGY
Refers to the study of past human cultures
through their material remains. It is the
study of past human cultures through the
recovery and analysis of artifacts.

13. FIELDS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
BIOLOGICALANTHROPOLOGY
Biological anthropologists study a variety of
aspects of human evolutionary biology.
It seeks to describe the distribution of hereditary
variations among contemporary populations and
to sort out and measure the relative
contributions made by heredity.

14. SOCIOLOGY

16. We are social animals
PRIMITIVE ANCIENT GREECE

17. We are social animals
DISCO SA UMA MODERN PARTY

18. We are social animals
EVENT OF THE
ELITES

19. Sociology
•It is a systematic study of
groups and societies that
people build and how
these affect their behavior.
•It focuses on various social
connections, institutions,
organizations, structures,
and processes.
A strong and competitive working environment
A collaborative working environment

20. The so called “Ecology of racists”

21. The scientific study of Sociology
enables us to:
•It gathers social inputs
which are composed of
frequent forms and
manners namely:
attitude, viewpoints,
consolidated values, and
norms of social

22. The scientific study of Sociology
enables us to:
•Obtain possible theories and principles about
society as well as various aspects of social life;
•Critically study the nature of humanity, which
also leads to examining our roles within the
society;

23. The scientific study of Sociology
enables us to:
•Appreciate that all
things (in society)
are interdependent
with each other. An
individual’s
personal history is
connected to
his/her
environment’s
history, which is

24. BRANCHES OF SOCIOLOGY
SOCIAL
ORGANIZATION
•This includes the
study of social
institutions, social
inequality, social
mobility, religious

25. BRANCHES OF SOCIOLOGY
SOCIAL
PSYCHOLOGY
• This area focuses on
the study of human
nature and its
emphasis on social
processes as they
affect individual or
responses which are

26. BRANCHES OF SOCIOLOGY
SOCIAL
PSYCHOLOGY
• This area focuses on
the study of human
nature and its
emphasis on social
processes as they
affect individual or
responses which are

27. BRANCHES OF SOCIOLOGY
APPLIED SOCIOLOGY
• This is concerned with the specific intent of yielding
practical applications for human behavior and
organizations. The goal of Applied Sociology is to assist in
resolving social problems through the use of sociological
research.

28. BRANCHES OF SOCIOLOGY
SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AND RESEARCH
• It focuses on the discovery of theoretical tools, methods,
and techniques to scientifically explain a particular
sociological issue.

29. BRANCHES OF SOCIOLOGY
SOCIAL CHANGE
• It studies factors that cause
organization and social
disorganization like calamity,
drug abuse, drastic and gradual
social change, health and welfare
problems, political instability,
unemployment and
underemployment, child and

36. POLITICAL SCIENCE

38. The learning objective
Discuss the nature, goals and
perspectives in/ of anthropology,
sociology and POLITICAL
SCIENCE

39. POLITICAL SCIENCE
•It is an academic
discipline that deals
with the study of
government and
political processes,
institutions, and

40. The Evolution of Political Movement
BEFORE NOW

41. POLITICAL SCIENCE
•It is a study of the
complex behavior
of various political
actors such as the
government
administration,
opposition, and

43. TAKE NOTE!
ThestudyofPoliticshassomethingtodowithpower–whowields
itandhowitisused.

45. New World Order

47. POLITICS
• It originated from the Greek
word ‘polis’, which means ‘city’
or ‘state’.
• It is the art and science of
governing city/state.
• It is the social process or
strategy in any position of
control which people gain,
use, or lose power.

48. POLITICS
•Due to the
negative
connotations of
politics, the term
is now applied to
many different
social situations.

49. POLITICS
While government typically refers to the
established LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE
departments of a nation or state, politics is
a broad term that is related to the power
sharing in any organization.

50. GOVERNMENT
•It is the agency to which the will of the state
is formulated, expressed, and carried out.
•It is the organized agency in a state tasked
to impose social control.

51. Which one is more dangerous for our government?

55. SOCIO-CULTURAL CHANGE

56. SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE
Social change refers to any significant
alteration over time in behavior
patterns , cultural values and
norms. By “significant” alteration,
sociologists mean changes yielding
profound social consequences.

57. The industrial revolution(1760-1840)

58. The abolition of slavery 15th century

60. The feminist movement 19th century

61. •It is the agency to which the will of the state
is formulated, expressed, and carried out.
•It is the organized agency in a state tasked
to impose social control.

62. CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIAL
CHANGE
SOCIAL CHANGE IS SOCIAL
•Social change obviously means a change in
system of social relationships.
•Only that change can be called social change
whose influence can be felt in a community
form.
•The changes that have significance for all or
considerable segment of population can be

63. CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIAL
CHANGE
SOCIAL CHANGE IS
UNIVERSAL
•The social structure, social
organization and social
institutions are all dynamic.
•Social change occur in all
societies no society remains
static for long time..

65. CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIAL
CHANGE
SOCIAL CHANGE OCCURS AS
AN ESSENTIAL LAW
•Our needs keep on changing to satisfy
desire for change and to satisfy these
needs, social change becomes a

68. CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIAL
CHANGE
SOCIAL
CHANGE IS
CONTINIOUS
Society is
continuously

69. CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIAL
CHANGE
RATE OF SOCIAL CHANGE IS
UNEVEN
•Urban society is more aggressive to social
change compared to rural society.

70. FACTORS OF SOCIAL CHANGE
PHYSICAL
ENVIRONMENT
•Major changes in the
environment are quite rare
but very compelling when
they happen.
•Environmental destruction
has been atleast a

71. FACTORS OF SOCIAL CHANGE
POPULATION CHANGE
•A stable population may able to resist most
change, but rapidly growing population
must migrate, improve it’s productivity, or
starve.

72. FACTORS OF SOCIAL CHANGE
ISOLATION AND CONTACT
•Areas of greatest international contact are
center of change. Conversely, isolated
are centers of stability, conservatism, and
resistance to change.