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Israel Ty Gomez Jr.

BEED II-B

                                                                                                                       

Sociology

 is the study of society. Sociology, the scientific study of human social behavior. As the study of humans in their collective aspect, sociology is concerned with all group activities: economic, social, political, and religious. Sociologists study such areas as bureaucracy, community, deviant behavior, family, public opinion, social change, social mobility, social stratification, and such specific problems as crime, divorce, child abuse, and substance addiction. Sociology tries to determine the laws governing human behavior in social contexts.

Anthropology 

 is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences The term "anthropology" is from the Greek  "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia 

Sociology and anthropology

Sociology and anthropology are separate, but related, branches of the social sciences that study humans and society. Once anthropology and sociology were similar in how they studied humans, but in the early part of the 20th century, their methodologies and foci diverged.

Difference

The study of human beings can be the study of a lifetime. Trying to understand human behavior has been a task that has occupied some of the greatest thinkers of our race for thousands of years. Disciplined study of the human race has been taking place since the Renaissance. Today there are many fields and sub-fields of study. While humankind is the subject matter of all these fields the philosophical approach to study varies from discipline to discipline. It may not be apparent at first, but there are some differences between anthropology and sociology.

Relevance

In anthropology, there are four major branches- one of them being cultural anthropology.Cultural anthropologists strive to understand and record the behaviors, beliefs, customs, rituals, and kinship patterns among people of different nations or groups.Because sociology studies the interactions among and between people in a group, sociology can easily supplement cultural anthropology in understanding how and why people in other groups form the kinds of relationships they do, believe what they do, and can help to predict how people may react to particular changes introduced into their environment.