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‘social anthropology’ is the more usual designation. In continental Europe, the word ‘anthropology’ often still tends to carry the meaning ‘physical anthropology’, though there too ‘social anthropology’ is now rapidly gaining ground as a synonym for ‘ethnology’. Indeed, the main
27 sty 2018 · Andrea Boscoboinik. Université de Fribourg. References (43) Abstract. In this chapter, we present the major anthropological currents that directly or indirectly made use of the notion of...
In everyday conversation, culture is confined to the arts, or alludes to the way of life of certain classes or even countries. Sociologists and anthropologists study the social contexts within which culture exists. They take culture apart to try and understand the relations between its various aspects.
Culture is understood here in its wide anthropological and sociological sense; by the subjects of culture, the author means individual producers, informal groups and social movements, NGOs, subjects of social economics, etc.
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On one hand physical/biological anthropology studies human body, genetics and the status of man among living beings whereas socio-cultural anthropology incorporates the intensive study of social behavior, customary patterns in human behaviour, thought and feelings and organisation of social groups.
In order to understand the emergence of sociology as a social science discipline, it is imperative to understand the socio-economic, political and scientific factors. Western Europe, in the 18th-19th centuries witnessed rapid and profound changes.
