How are anthropology and sociology different?

Answer 1

Anthropology is the study of humans. In general it is divided into four different research areas: Cultural, Archaeological, Physical and Linguistic. Cultural Anthropology is the study of the cultural behaviors of humans. Archeology is the study of cultures based upon the material remains they have left behind. Physical Anthropology is the study of human biological, and now genetic, diversity. Linguistics is the study of the languages humans use to communicate. A fifth area, Applied Anthropology, was introduced about 15-20 years ago to cover the idea of taking the theories from the others and applying them to help solve real world problems.

Sociology is the study of societies and social behavior. It particular the rules in use within a society.

To get a better feel for where their difference are today you have look into how each of the disciplines originated and changed over time as different theories were adopted or discarded by different groups of academics over time. While they started in very different ways, eventually some of them started to read each others books and the lines started to get blurred. The Wikipedia articles listed below give a good start on these histories.

Answer 2

Anthropology is not the sociology of primitive peoples. Anthropology is the study of hominids generally; it's not a social science at all, but a physical-naturalist one, much like primatology or ornithology.

Anthropology treats physical and psychometrical differences as well as cultural and behavioral ones. No matter where you find us, whether in laboratories, in office buildings, on battleships, in deserts or in jungles, hominids are fit for anthropological study.

In fact, there is anthropological significance in the fact that so many, a disproportionate many, social scientists are Jews. Or that so many editors and publishers of anthropological and sociological texts are Jews. This is a science that can study its own exponents with much of value to be learned...but hardy must be the anthropologist who goes into THIS animal's cage! Most animals, hominids included, may bite when they or their food source is threatened.

Anthropology is a special science in one political respect: it has been the target of a sustained attack by people who want to conceal any real, physical basis for discrimination among different hominid types. That is, they want to turn anthropology into another sociology with slightly modified decorations.

That's why you'll hear much about "cultural" differences between Africans and Europeans, but very little will be said about differences in brain size and structure. And those omissions are deliberate: the leftists don't want people to know that the physical differences lead and the cultural ones follow, that to preserve a certain culture you must preserve the kind of man who makes it, that when a country built by one race is taken over by another everything changes - Haiti, Zimbabwe, etc.

Answer 3

Sociology deals with the social structure and historical experiences of life. Anthropology deals with historical evidence and life culture of past times.

Answer 4

anthropology has to do with the species and sociology has to do with the inneraction of people socially

Answer 5

With lots of exceptions to the rule, generally sociologists study urbanized, literate people in industrialized countries. Anthropologists study preliterate people who live rural lives in non-industrialized areas.

But, they are "sister sciences," so there is a lot of cross-over.

For example, there are "urban anthropologists," who study graffiti. And there are "cultural sociologists" who study people in non-indutrialized societies to try to find similarities and differences.

Also, there are some anthropologists who become archaeologists, studying the remains of people who lived many thousands of years ago. And, there are some sociologists who become demographers, studying population dynamics and project figures into the future.

Almost any introductory textbook in either discipline will address this topic in the first chapter.