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Psychology
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Study of mind, individual behaviour
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Sosiology
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Study of group (mob) behaviour
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History
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Study complexity of written past
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Writing
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Based on a system o f abstract symbols
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Art
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Room for interpretation, no concrete meaning
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Anthropology
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Social science, study of man, and all things connected to him, past, present, future
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4 sub-division
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Cultural, physical, archaeology, linguistic
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Origin of anthropology
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1870 Edward B Tylor
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First in Canada
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Early 20th CWilfred Laurier established Anthro division
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Originally used for
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Colonial dominance, control of indigenious peoples
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Function (now)
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Understand simple/ complex societies, fight for rights of indigenious peoples
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Goal of Anthro
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To understand humanity and diversity, includes neasest biological relattives (primates). search for fundamental and universal patterns of behavious. Cultural foundations
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Culture
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Corpus of learned behaviour practised by a group, transmitted between generations
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Culture used to
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Survive, adapt, interact
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Instinct
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Genetically determined behavious, predetermined
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