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seeing the doctor that day. Sociology are;
The following terms are used in
connection with doses:      | Functionalism
 
 Also The two primary factors that | Marxism
referred to as the normal adult determine or influence the dose | Feminism
dose, the usual dose or average are  and   | The New Right
dose, it is the amount needed to but wait, there are more!
produce the desired therapeutic Age |   
effect. Weight | Functionalists believe
   A term that Gender that society can best be
applies to the range between the compared to a living
minimum amount of drug and Time of administration organ, in which
the maximum amount of drug Immune response institutions and people
required to produce the desired Tolerance all have a function to
effect. play with society. For
Accumulation example, the function of

 The least
amount of drug required to Pathological factors the family is to socialise
produce a therapeutic effect. Psychological factors children. Functionalist
theorists include Talcott

 The largest Parsons and Emile
amount of drug that can be given     :
Durkheim.
without reaching the toxic effect. Genetic make-up (nationality,
 
 The least amount race)
|  
of drug that will produce Occupation | Marxists believe that a
symptoms of poisoning. Habitual use capitalist society is
  
 characterised by a
The least amount of Frequency of administration
class conflict between
drug that can produce Mode of administration the bourgeoisie (the
death. owners of capital) and
!   "   #$ the proletariat (the
      working-class). In a
capitalist economic
 Sociology is the % 
# 
system such as the UK,
If you are trying to find out what  #&' For the
the bourgeoisie exploit
a milligram actually might look examination, you need to know a
the proletariat. Marxist
like, take a raisin, cut it into 1000 number of concepts and terms
theorists include
equal parts. There--each little used in the subject. There are
Friedrich Engels and
part will weigh about 1 milligram!   main areas you need to
Karl Marx.
There are 453,592.37 milligrams consider;
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in a pound. The fact that most | Feminists argue that
drugs are measured in î Social structures (e.g. society is dominated by
milligrams should alert you to the family, education, men. In this patriarchal
realize that sometimes the most social stratification, society men
miniscule amounts of a etc.) discriminate against
substance can be very powerful. women in order to
î Social systems (e.g.
Label instructions should be prevent males and
culture and identity,
followed very carefully. females gaining equal
agents of social control,
etc.) rights. There are
Often, in a medical office or various strands of belief
clinic, the doctor orders a î Social issues (e.g. the
causes of crime, the within feminism; such
medication and requests that the as radical feminism,
patient receives the initial, or impact of
unemployment, etc.) liberal feminism and
whole dose of the prescribed Marxist feminism.
drug before leaving the office. Feminist theorists
Also, there are patients that As you might expect of a social include Germaine
come to the medical office for science, there are several Greer and Ann Oakley.
the sole purpose of receiving a explanations as to how we can
dose of a prescribed medication, best understand human society.
such as allergy shots, Vitamin B The main theoretical |   (  
Sociologists who take a New Right 'cultural areas'. Some study the into his/her course of study.
perspective believe that origins of human beings several Typically, the biological
traditional roles within society million years ago. Others anthropologist will specialize in
have been undermined by the investigate human culture and human variation/adaptation,
permissive values of the 1960s technology dating to the very forensic anthropology,
and 1970s. They argue that the recent past and even the palaeomicrobiology,
nuclear family is the bedrock of material culture of contemporary palaeoanthropology or
society, and that the welfare societies. Collectively, such primatology.
state creates a dependency information helps us understand
culture. New Right theorists individual cultures and also       # is the
include Charles Murray and Sir some of the common features study of human speech and
Keith Joseph associated with all human language, including origins and
beings throughout the evolution investigating specific languages.
!       #$ of our genus r Particularly important is studying
contemporary languages and
Some archaeologists specialize comparing them with extant
Anthropology is the integrated ones. Linguists may then identify
biological and socio-cultural in the study of one kind of
evidence rather than in a time relationships between human
investigation of humankind, from populations.
the time of our hominid period or culture area. These
ancestors to the present, and varieties of evidence include
human and animal bone, stone Linguistics is considered a sub-
encompassing small to large discipline of anthropology due to
societies. It includes the four artifacts, rock paintings and
engravings, beads, pottery, its focus on human culture.
sub-disciplines of    #, Language acquisition and usage
)     #,   pollen, charcoal and other
evidence of past environments, is a unique human characteristic
and  * which may be studied by how an
    # with many or buildings and historical
documents. Some of these individual learns, in the context
different specialties in each of a particular culture or within a
division. studies require scientific
techniques, hence archaeology broader human evolutionary
requires the integratation of the mode.
   # is the study of social sciences with the physical
ancient human cultures by sciences. "  *     # is
investigating the material the study of cultures of living
remains that they left behind. An +       # is the human populations, usually
integral part of archaeologists' study of the physical, through ethnographic research.
knowledge is obtained through physiological, skeletal, and Socio-cultural anthropologists
scientific excavations. These are genetic nature of humans and often study contemporary
usually completed slowly and our hominid ancestors. While societies by observing human
methodically so that nothing is this sub-discipline includes behaviour while living and
missed and details can be palaeoanthropology, or the study working in those communities.
recorded. Documentation is an of human evolution, it also This is called "participant-
important part of archaeologists' involves our primate biological observation". Traditionally such
work, which involves careful relatives (known as primatology). field work was conducted in
recording bysurveying, mapping, Skeletal and genetic studies rural, agrarian, or forager
and photography. focus on the history and spread communities. Anthropologists
Archaeologists may learn about of diseases in ancient and now might also be found working
the beliefs and lifestyles of modern societies, as well as in in urban and "western" societies.
people in the past by many forensic investigations.
different methods and in different The nature of the research
contexts. A few examples are Biological anthropologists use a questions asked varies widely,
locating and recording rock art or bio-cultural approach to the but usually involves an attempt
investigating house styles and study of humanity. This to understand the socio-political
construction methods by approach centres on the and economic structure of the
mapping buildings or structures. relationships between human community, relations within and
They may even learn about biology and culture from an between families, and also the
maritime history by investigating evolutionary perspective. There relationship of the community to
shipwrecks underwater. is an overlap in course the physical environment within
preparation between the biology which it operates. Modern
Archaeologists tend to specialize and biological anthropology cultural anthropology might
in different periods of human student but the anthropology involve studies to address
history or within student also incorporates community socio-economic
biogeographically defined knowledge of cultural systems development, political
empowerment, or social ethnicity, race, religion,
dislocation. This sort of politics, gender and
anthropology may contribute to history affect each
community development, or the individual's well being
alleviation of social inequity. and way of life.

What is the relationship between    


socio and anthro
3. There is a
Anthropology is essentially the misconception that
sudy of humankind in all its anthropology is
aspects (culture, development). outdated. This
It differs in sociology in taking a misconception derives
more historical and comparative from the notion that
approach. every anthropologist
studies primitive
Sociology is the systemic study cultures, while
of the development, structure, sociologists are
interaction, and collective interested in first world
behavior of organized goups of cultures.
human beings.
  
 

4. Because sociology and


Although sociology and anthropology are so
anthropology are closely related closely related, it isn't
to one another, they are still two uncommon for
distinct fields of science that individuals to learn
each have their own approaches about both fields when
and methodologies for studying attending a college or
people. university. As a matter
of fact, many

  universities offer
courses that are a
combination of both
1. In simple terms, disciplines.
anthropology is often
described as the study +
of culture while
sociology is more
broadly defined as the 5. Common interests unite
study of society. sociology and
Sociologists focus more anthropology. Both
on societal institutions fields are full of
and how the institutions professionals anxious
affect people. to learn more about
people and their
" communities. These
two fields of science
can be used to better
2. According to the communities and help
University of North individuals around the
Carolina, the similarities world gain a better
in anthropology and understanding of each
sociology are that both other.
study a range of
sociocultural behavior.
For example, both
anthropologists and
sociologists are
concerned with how

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