Sociology and Anthropology

 SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology is the study of human beings and their ancestors through time in terms of physical characteristics, environmental and social relations, and culture. Moreover, Social-cultural, linguistic, physical, archaeological, and simple, traditional, and non-traditional societies are the specialization of Anthropologists. 

For example, social institution economic life education, family, politics and relation, gender, race and ethnicity, and social class, social change and social problems and focuses on complex and modern societies are the specializations of the sociologists. Anthropology covers all characteristics of humanity, including physiology and evolutionary origins while sociology focuses on social relationships and developments. 

1. Similarities: 

According to the University of North Carolina, the similarities in anthropology and sociology are that both study the range of social culture behavior. 

For example, both anthropologists and sociologists are concerned with how ethnicity, race, religion, politics, gender, and history affect each individual well being and way of life. According to Hobel, sociology and social anthropology are, in their broadest sense one and the same. Evans Pritchard considers social anthropology a branch of sociology. Sociology is greatly benefited y anthropological studies. 

The nation of racial superiority has been disproved by anthropology. Further, sociology has borrowed many concepts like cultural area, culture traits, interdependent traits, cultural lag, culture patterns, culture configuration, etc. 

For example, anthropologists like Morgan and his followers have come to the conclusion regarding the existence of primitive communism from the conception of private property in our modern society.

2. Dissimilarity: 

Sociology and social anthropology have quite different origins. Sociology originated from philosophy of history, political thought, and positive sciences while anthropology has descended from biology. In the earlier periods of their periods of heir growth the two disciplines grew up in close cooperation with each other them of the concepts used, areas of interest, and their methods of study, as can be seen in the work of founders which cannot easily be assigned exclusively to either one of the disciplines. The early convergence was followed by a period of extreme divergence in terms of their universe of study, saras of interest, method of study, and even the concepts employed. Social anthropologists tend to closely study small societies that are relatively unchanging and lacking in historical records such as Melanesia, on the other hand. 

for the social anthropologists the field is a small self-contained group of the community whereas for the sociologists the field is an all itself contained a group of the community whereas for the sociologists the field could be a large scale and impersonal organization and processes.