How related or unrelated are the fields of psychology, anthropology, sociology, and neuroscience?

Answer 1

I'd say they are related, mainly in that they each have something to say about how Human Minds Behave.

Psychology looks at mood and thought processes.

Anthropology looks at how individuals behave relative to the culture that surrounds them.

Sociology looks at how individuals behave relative to their places in society: the roles they are expected to play by others, the roles individuals actually *do* play in comparison to those expected roles, and how individuals fit in (or not).

And neuroscience looks at how the micro-scale chemistry between nerve cells effects moods, thoughts, intellect, sociability, the whole works--though many in the field are actively discouraged from making the connection work in reverse and trying to see how the *outside* ends up effecting the inside as well.

Either way, each science has something to say about why individual people, as both intelligent and social beings, do what they do and behave the way they do.

The catch is *context*. Trying to do a systems-theory or gestalt approach that implicitly gets the bigger picture and combines both the inside-outward approaches of psychology and neuroscience, with the outside-inward approaches of anthropology and sociology. Using one pair of sciences to correct for the biases of the other, so that the inside-outward approaches don't just *endlessly* blame the individual, and so that the outside-inward ones don't just blame society and nothing else....

In other words....the need is there to treat people as a *moiety* in and of themselves, as a system or gestalt all their own with both internal (nature) and external (nurture) influences. Because some problems need solving from both directions at once as they were *made* in both directions at once.

Hope this helps. :) Thanks for your time!

Answer 2

All are related in that each must take into consideration activities of the others to understand better each's particular realm of study. Their relation is in the individual social being but are unrelated in the study of different aspects of that being. For example a cardiologist studies the heart wheras a dermatologist studies the epidermis etc.

Psychology is an academic and applied field involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior. Psychology also refers to the application of such knowledge to various spheres of human activity, including problems of individuals' daily lives and the treatment of mental illness.

Anthropology (from the Greek word ἄνθρωπος, "man" or "person") consists of the study of humanity (see genus Homo). It is holistic in two senses: it is concerned with all human beings at all times and with all dimensions of humanity.

Sociology is the study of society and human social interaction. Sociological research ranges from the analysis of short contacts between anonymous individuals on the street to the study of global social processes. The field focuses on how and why people are organized in society, either as individuals or as members of associations, groups, and institutions.

Neuroscience is a field that is devoted to the scientific study of the nervous system. Such studies may include the structure, function, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.

Answer 3

Neuroscience is the science of the brain.
Psychology is the study of human behavior
Sociology is the study of human behavior within a particular group.
Anthropology is the study of early human life.

Answer 4

very much related