Anthropology
The study of humans, societies, cultures, and their evolutionary developments.
What is anthropology?
The scientific study of language and its structure.
What is linguistics?
The study of human social relations or group life.
What is sociology?
The statistical study of human populations.
What is demography?
The study of resources or allocation, decision making.
The four subfields of anthropology.
What is archaeology, social-cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and biological anthropology?
The father of modern linguistics.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
Founder of sociology, having laid the groundwork for the study of society in scientific terms. He also coined the term sociology.
Social demography and biodemography.
What are the subfields of demography?
The three subfields of economics.
What is microeconomics, macroeconomics, and international economics?
The father of modern anthropology and cultural relativism, where no race is superior over another.
Who is Franz Boas?
Phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
What is the six subfields of linguistics?
The father of modern sociology, as he etablished sociology as an academic discipline.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
Father of demography, created primitive life tables.
Who is John Graunt?
The overall market value of the goods and services of a country in a year, shortened to GDP.
What is gross domestic product?
The terms of considering yourself superior to other races and considering yourself inferior to other races.
What is ethnocentrism and xenocentrism?
Areas of inquiry in linguistics are studying languages as thought processes, looking for theories that accounts for the universal human capacity to produce and understand language, and more.
What are the areas of inquiry in linguistics? (Alternatively, what is linguistics about?)
Social institutions, groups, inequality, stratification, ethnic groups, family, education, and politics are all under this area of sociology.
What is social organization?
Created the Malthusian Theory, presenting it in 1798.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
Father of economics and proposed the invisible hand.
Who is Adam Smith?
Developed functionalism.
Who is Bronislaw Malinowski?
The study of physical properties of speech production and perception.
What is phonics?
Social organization, social psychology, social change and disorganization, human ecology, population, sociological theory and method, and applied sociology.
What are the seven fields of sociology?
The three population pyramids. Respectively, they have the characteristics...
high birth & death rate, short life expectancy (for developing nations)
elderly and shrinking
low & stable birth rates, high life expectancy (has high quality of life)
What is expansive, constrictive, and stable/stationary?
Founded modern macroeconomics.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?