Anthropological Perspectives

What is anthropology? This is a question that can be answered in numerous ways, but we are going to define it as simple as possible. If we break the word down into its two components it means the study of human beings. “Anthropo” means human beings or human kind and “logy” or “logia” is Greek for the study or knowledge of something. When we put it all together, it is the study of human beings which can be very broad. Anthropology can be broken down into four subfields: physical anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and cultural anthropology.

In today’s tumultuous world, a person can benefit from different ways to make sense of all the things that happen around them to add perspective and reason. One of these ways is to use a sociological perspective to achieve a greater understanding of both cause and effect. The three major sociological perspectives include: the functionalist perspective, the conflict perspective, and the symbolic interactionist perspective. In response to the news article NYC Police Officers Turn Their Backs on Mayor, each of the sociological perspectives will be discussed in relationship to the civil unrest between the New York City police department and mayor’s office in the shooting deaths of two officers during protests.

Although I did not know it at the time, the catalyst to pursue Neurology began early in pre-medical studies. It wasn’t the course I took on “Mind, Brain, and Behavior” or the fascinating brain dissection I witnessed, but rather a fellow student, Ira, who is afflicted with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). Ira, with severely atrophied extremities and scoliotic posture, was instantly recognized as he traversed campus in his motorized wheelchair. However, it wasn’t his disability that he was known for, but rather his gregarious attitude. Ira has a larger than life personality and his humorous anecdotes quickly captured everyone’s attention during our first day in the dorms. A month into the academic year, Ira expressed frustration with his current

Three most common sociological perspectives that allow for sociologists to understand social matters and behaviors are: Structural Functionalism, Conflict Theory, and Symbolic Interactionism. The Structural Functionalism theory summed up demonstrates how individuals in a society work together to create a system that helps benefit one another. This viewpoint contains a macro-level perspective because it aims to view how large-scale societies function with many groups of people. Society is viewed as "...a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social needs of the individuals in that society" ("Introduction to Sociology 2e", 2015).

Srinivas Maddineni and I come from different backgrounds and cultures. Srinivas—or as he likes to be called “Jake”—is from India and can speak Bengali and Hindi. I, on the other hand, have ancestors from Eastern Europe and speak my religion’s language of Hebrew. Despite these cultural differences, Jake and I met and forged a meaningful relationship because of our shared interest in economic empowerment. Before I talk about my relationship with Jake and how our friendship impacted an organization, I’ll first discuss how I came to know him. Before coming to Emory, I was originally set to attend George Washington University (GW). I will admit that I was not excited about the prospect of going to GW; it was low on my “college list” and I did not feel passionate about the school or its academic

Rylko-Bauer, Barbra, Merrill Singer and John Van Willigan. “Reclaiming Applied Anthropology: Its Past Present and

In the first couple of weeks we have talked about multiple topics about humans. Starting off the beginning of class we got a brief description in what the coarse was going to be. We learned that anthropology was the study of people and culture. There are four subfields of anthropology which include cultural, linguistic, archeology, and physical or biological anthropology. There were many different hypotheses that people believed in how the world was created. People believed in different ideas like the young earth hypothesis, catastrophism, and uniformitarianism. Charles Darwin was the one that created the theory of natural selection. The coarse then went into biology and talked about the genetics of the people. We learned about genes,

In part four "The Origin of Islam The Social Organization of Mecca and The Origins of Islam, Eric R. Wolf" of the novel, Paradigms for Anthropology by E. Paul Durrenberger and Suzan Erem discussed among the Meccan society, there are thirteen major groups of clients; all associated to a patron family or clan. A couple of the clients were freed slaves, while the rest were outlaws. Again, a couple of the clients were people who had transferred for safety through matrilocal marriage. The Meccan society does have a descendants. The Meccan society was organized by two clans being at the center while the other eight clans being at the outskirts. The purpose was to look closely between those apart of the dissimilar categorizations. The Meccan kinship

This paper is a seven-page study of response, reflection, beliefs and questions on different theological topics. The body of the journal looks at consensus, or alternative views depending on where the interest was found in the chapter. I give the author credit for the work of taking 2000 years of history and funnel it to areas easier to understand. As a result of further research and reflection, I have grown another step to becoming better organized and apply thoughts and ideas. This book was written in 2002, so much of humanity has changed since then.

When I first attended college at SUNY Oswego I thought I knew exactly what I was going to do and who I be, but of course, I was wrong. I initially wanted to become a zoologist and work with animals, while studying their behaviors at the same time, but as fate allowed my interests in that field quickly deterred shortly after attending my first year of college. During my sophomore year, I took an anthropology course for a general education requirement. I had little knowledge of what anthropology was or what an anthropologist did, but I quickly fell in love with the field and all the concepts that are integrated into the anthropology courses. By studying anthropology, I was introduced to one of the hardest classes that I have ever had the opportunity

Ethnocentrism is the idea that ones own cultural is the standard of living and all other cultures are susceptible to be compared to that way of life, Cultural relativism on the other hand is understanding that different cultures in different environments survive differently. I just recently witnessed someone exhibit their ethnocentric ideas when my father visited and we went hiking in sedona. Having grown up in Hawaii neither of us hardly ever wore shirts, going straight from the beach to a grocery store in nothing but surf shorts was never a problem or anything out of the ordinary. So naturally while out on a hike in the hot sun we took our shirts off and went on our way, as we progressed the trail I felt like everyone was looking at us and I couldn't figure out why. We passed multiple groups giving us weird looks but I didn't think anything of it, it wasn't until we stopped by a convenience store where the clerks scowl made me realize that "No shirt, no shoes, no service" is actually a thing here. Thankfully she still let us buy our things and leave, but it was interesting to see someones expression and demeanor change simply due to a couple men not wearing shirts, it's not like we're covered in tattoo's or provide anything to profile us as problematic. I can see how some might say not wearing a shirt isn't a cultural thing but considering how widely accepted and popular it is amongst locals i'd say it's a characteristic. Cultural relativism is a much better outlook to

My culture is pretty close to the average human I guess. For example, when I see my family everyone gets excited and start talking about what’s new and what we’ve done. Sometimes my family talks about some stuff that doesn’t even matter but they make a lot of jokes.

By factoring in spatial and temporal geographic locations, allowing the continental simulation to account for the whole continent, while the biogeographic model displays specific regional archetypes, as well as reliable or intermediately reliable results, Faith and Surovell collected data to test their hypothesis. There are also other ways the scientific method has been utilized in this field which does not aggregate radiocarbon dates through a system. Meltzer and Mead (1983) accumulated their data from a journal, Radiocarbon, as well as published and unpublished sources, and then tested the material dated through their own conditions. Pettit (2003) measured and interpreted sample taxa dates from radiocarbon datasets found in France to form

What questions do Anthropologist ask? What are Anthropologist main interest, and theoretical orientations? Anthropology the study of people shares many general interest in the nature of human beings, and borrows greatly on the understandings of others. Additionally, the range of clearly stated interest involving people who study people is so broad that it is almost impossible to find a one common denominator that describes them

I chose four different anthropological projects from around the word in which I believe would be best for the Archaeology Conservancy to protect. I ranked these different projects based on quality of work, potential for public use, threatened nature, and heritage importance. I first reviewed the Mosfell Archeological project in Iceland. This area will construct a vivid picture of the human and environmental change in southwestern Ireland. The purpose of this project is to find the prehistory and early history of the Mosfell region. I also looked into the Pylos Regional Archaeological project. This project started in 1990 to look at prehistoric settlements in western Messenia, Greece. The Yaxuna project caught my attention because the