anthropology vs sociology

anthropology

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noun

  1. the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings

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The study of this aspect of language provides links with other disciplines such as sociology, social anthropology, psychology and philosophy.

So we set about assembling a team of cross-disciplinary professionals including Dr. Patricia Muehsam, on the faculty of Mount Sinai Medical School; Dr. Peter Roche de Coppens, professor of sociology, anthropology, and psychotherapy at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania and the Sorbonne in Paris; Dr. Beverly Rubik, a biophysicist who had conducted scientific research in mind-body, subtle energies, and complementary medicine; Dr. J.

A social scientist of great distinction and international reputation, Malinowski was a founder of modern social anthropology.

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sociology

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noun

  1. the study and classification of human societies

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The study of this aspect of language provides links with other disciplines such as sociology, social anthropology, psychology and philosophy.

So we set about assembling a team of cross-disciplinary professionals including Dr. Patricia Muehsam, on the faculty of Mount Sinai Medical School; Dr. Peter Roche de Coppens, professor of sociology, anthropology, and psychotherapy at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania and the Sorbonne in Paris; Dr. Beverly Rubik, a biophysicist who had conducted scientific research in mind-body, subtle energies, and complementary medicine; Dr. J.

-- The scientific remedies for poverty and pauperism, that is, the scientific methods of dealing with the various dependent classes and of preventing their existence, now form the subject-matter of a great independent science, the science of philanthropy, which, as we have already seen, may be considered a branch of applied sociology.

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