I'm doing a double major in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology and you've just explained this so well!! I always struggle to explain to people the difference, but from now on I'm gonna try use this explanation, it's so much clearer than the way I try to explain it. Thanks!!
I find myself using the two terms almost interchangeably. If sociology is the study of the struggles faced by different cultures and groups of people, and cultural anthropology studies the beliefs, customs, and development of these same groups, how can you avoid saying that these two disciples are not intertwined?
Sociology undergrad here, you did a really good job explaining the difference between the two; given there is a ton of overlap and the fact you only took one soci course. Bravo! You're half right when you say sociology is primarily focused on statistics. There are definitely PhDs and profs (called quants) who exclusively use those quantitative methods. There are also profs who exclusively use qualitative methods (open ended surveys and interviews). Worse yet, ethnography is a recognized, legitimate qualitative method that those profs use! I haven't really heard of someone using both qualitative and qualitative methods (they should!), but I've been out of uni a while now so I could be wrong. With further regard to ethnography, we as sociologists recognize the greater society we live in and we also recognize mini-societies (subcultures if you will) of this greater society (ex roofers, fandom/comic con fans, hockey players, etc etc). So ethnographers would live in and study these subcultures and write about their norms and mores, which is also what cultural anthropologists do lol. There are other distinctions. One is that sociology focuses on the relationships between people and anthropologists focus on culture (ie way of life). Another distinction I've heard is that sociologists have the paradigm that culture is a product of society so we study society. Anthropologists operate with the opposite paradigm, where society is a product of culture and so they study culture. Even after doing my undergrad, it's still hard for me to see where one ends and where the other begins...at least with cultural anthro (the other three are pretty distinct). Keep up the great videos and good luck with the rest of your degree!
This is SO thorough, thank you so much for adding to the knowledge pool! Hearing from sociology students has been really helpful in reducing my own biases and experiences to give viewers the best understanding of the real differences between the two. Thank you again, so interesting!
There needs to be more anthropology representation in education, and I’m so glad you’re contributing to that :) I found your page recently because I’ve been debating switching from a sci major to an anthro major!!
Oh my gosh, thank you! I agree with you 100% and I wish there was more academic representation/anthropology representation online... Anthro has some amazing overlap with STEM (bio especially) and I have had the best experience. I focus on biological anthropology and the "human" perspective it offers is amazing :)
Nice video! I'm a sociology major so hopefully I can provide some insight to the sociology side? One could argue that the fundamental unit of sociology is social interaction. Things such as meaning and our realities of how we view the world precipitate from social interactions. So sociology while scientifically driven, can also be extremely abstract and profound just like math or philosophy. Sociology focuses on how humans build and change social structures (large ones like society, or small ones like friend groups) and act as individuals or collectives within these structures; it's concerned about our construction of reality and changes in our behaviors as a result of social interactions. Hope that helps :)
Soci grad here too. You give good supplement for this video! And I want to add something more that may make it more clear. It is that the way of understanding the base of society as social interaction is just one kind of perspectives of sociology to undertand the consitution of society, which is called symbolic interactionism.Aand many other streams of soci give different explanations, like Talcott Parsons who thought society can only be organised when its people internalize all those values and rules and follow them. Generally speaking, sociology has so many ways of explaning this society, it really cares about how society is possible and why it doesn't end up as war of human beings, which is a classic question raised by Hobbes. Maybe that is also some kind of point of the difference between these two subjects, sociology and anthropology.
I like how you simplified things down to how sociology is statistics focused, large groups, social problems and social structures whilst anthropology is divided into four subcategories of linguistics, cultural, biological and archeological and cultural anthropology specifically ethnography focuses on individual experiences within that particular group or culture. I love both, and I’ve always loved how sociology addresses social structures and social problems. But I also love how anthropology doesn’t necessarily have a political or social justice agenda, and is purely on the anthropology side of things. Both are super interesting to me but I find it so easy to mix them up sometimes. Even though I have read few sociology books, and a few ethnography books and watched a lot of youtube videos on anthropology and linguistics. Its really helpful for me to be able to separate the two fields of study and to delineate the differences between them.
I would say sociology doesn't have a social justice agenda. It is just about the FACTS and those facts may help social justice but anthropology such as applied anthropology also may help social justice.
Excellent. Thank a bunch Alivia Brown. I got much more information from this video. Now I'm a master degrees student at Karakalpaks State university, which is situated in Uzbekistan (Republic of Karakalpakstan), I major in etnography, ethnology and antropologhy. And I just subscribed. Good luck in your work and studies!
This is a fun topic! I think of them as being scientific in different/complementary ways and they are also converging somewhat as you mention. Anthro is holistic, so it integrates biological and material culture/physical analyses alongside more humanistic research methods like ethnography, although quantitative analysis has always been part of American anthro. Soc was historically intended to study the science of society and arose within an academic community enamored with quantitative analysis, so they've been more interested in quant, survey research, etc historically. The difference is still there somewhat but anthropology and ethnography have become especially influential, including in soc in the last 15 years, largely because of their advantages for exploring human needs/drivers in greater depth (like digital tech) and with more complete context than quantitative methods or laboratory studies generally allow. American anthro also benefits from being a relatively new field that could addresses some of the shortcomings of others, like soc and bio, while also integrating insights from them. Thanks for the video!
Thanks for you video, I totally agree with you on the overall description, I would add that sociology is actually combining statistic and qualitative research. You can have a look to Pierre Bourdieu (Sorry I'm French ^^) he imported a lot of anthropology methods to sociology as he thinks that statistics creates / rationalize things that do not exist on the field. He has a more structuralist approach of sociology I definitely recommend you to check him out ^^.
I completely agree with you! Honestly I'm not sure how I forgot to mention that! Sociology is absolutely more quantitative and relies on a lot of statistics. I will absolutely check him out, sounds so interesting. Thank you!
@@AliviaBrown I'm also a junior bachelor student, we're just getting started ^^. I'm also thinking that you maybe have Emile durkheim in mind as he was more focused on statistics. If you have any good references of American sociologist I'll be glad to be educated. Cheers !
@@adrealz276 Wow, so much in common, I love it! And I can't think of any sociologists to share (outside of the big names Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Herbert Spencer, etc.) mostly because my knowledge is mostly in anthropology, With that said though, if I think of anyone I will send a message your way!
@@AliviaBrown yea maybe back in the day like the 1800s when it was founded up to maybe the 1950s 🤷♀️ it was more quantitative and stats based. And over the years up to now there was a qualitative focus that was added to that. At uni I definetly got that mixed qual/quant feel when being taught...but I feel that once you got higher profs would be either or.
I’m currently serving in the military and I’m so fascinated with this field. I’ve gone ahead and re-enlisted for another four years so I might earn my degree in cultural anthropology. In the next video could you give some insight on online courses and pursuing a career in this field? I’d love to be able to get out and make a passion out of this!
First of all, thank you so much for your service. And second, isn't it the best!? I would absolutely love to do that. I do have a video called "careers in anthropology" that I will link for you (th-cam.com/video/cmaOeCd7UxY/w-d-xo.html). It's a bit old now but I think still has a lot of valuable information. I also have a video coming soon about how to engage more with anthropology (books, movies, etc.). In addition to this though, I will look more into your questions and see what kind of online course paths are available. I think it is so great that you want to get involved in this field of study :)
Hello again! Wanted to give you a heads up I just uploaded a video with some great resources on learning about Anthropology. I hope it helps! th-cam.com/video/zzKHATpExmE/w-d-xo.html
Hello Mr. Veteran! I don't know much about anthropology and the military, but I do know there are military sociologists that work with the US mil. You might have heard the term "total institution" and is what the military is. Given the similarities between soci & anthro, I can imagine there are tons of studies on the military from the anthro POV. Cheers and thank you for your service!
Its funny that you would use Google to help explain this. One of the things I find myself thinking about constantly is technology,our perception of intelligence and how one day the majority may have access to a device or tech that they would be able to use in the university and how that may change how we think about what it means to be an intelligent individual. For example a person who has access to the best technology may be viewed as an intelligent individual.
This is something I have never considered before but you make an excellent point. Much of our knowledge base is contingent upon the resources we have access to. I will definitely be thinking about this later, thank you!
Im from Malaysia, and my course literally named "Sociology and Social Anthropology" that's mean i study both.. eventhough that a difference between this two field, the overlap of this study have shade the boundaries away.. like you said, in this 21st century, some Anthropologist may use and add on sociologists method to richer they founding, and vise versa some Sociologists might use Ethnographic study to get deep understanding about people that they research on...
Well you convinced me to take social Anthropology at uni... I made the very controversial decision to continue studying at the age of 22 in hopes of becoming a psychologist. However my local University only offers a BA in humanities program that eventually leads to higher education in psych (honours etc.) granted you take psych as your main subject. So other than having psychology as a main subject I had to choose between all these humanities subjects that I've never even heard of... Eventually it was between sociology and Social Anthropology, and I think I'm personally just far more interested in Anthropology. Anthropology being more focused on the individual and their day to day lives within a community strikes me as much more intriguing then sociological issues... Thanks for the insight!
Hi Hugo! Thank you so much for this thoughtful comment! I love hearing about the path people are taking in regards to academics. Anthropology is incredible and I hope you love it as much as I do!
Hi , i havent study antropoly in university, i have a grade in laws, but i started loving antropology 😍 , interesting material you have in your channel :)!
isn't law usually one of the highest paying jobs? if you're looking into studying anthropology while quitting law school, it might not be the best thing to do personally but you do you!
Hi Maria, you'd be interested to know that laws are a good metric of what is considered normal in society. Theft, assault, and murder are good examples of this. We as a society find these actions harmful and vulgar so we have laws that punish people who engage in these behaviours (or commit these crimes).
Thank you for clarifying the two, I am currently taking them and I see a similarity but the difference I see is that in Anthropology we talk about animals while in Sociology we talk about people.
Which subfield of anthropology are you studying? Because in socio-cultural anthropology you definitely focus on people, maybe sometimes in interaction with animals, but the focus is on human lives
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Massively helpful, I'm struggling to workout the differences here in the UK -where we tend to call it Social Anthropology. Its also often combined with Sociology too. Before this video Social/cultural Anthropology just seemed to be Sociology with Ethnography/participant observation but your video has really helped explain. thanks
Yes, this is so true in the US as well! Social anthropology, cultural anthropology, and sociology are all so similar so I'm really glad to hear this video was able to disentangle them a little bit. Not sure if you still need this, but I actually made a video on social anthropology more specifically that I'll link here: th-cam.com/video/jTDMhjfTZ5M/w-d-xo.html Thanks so much for the comment!
Hello! All of these fields are such amazing ones. If I were to boil these down extremely simplistically, anthro is studying human experiences, sociology is studying human statistics, and psychology is studying the human mind. A lot is left out in this (clearly) but it may help get you on the right track. Good luck!
This video is so helpful, it helps me clarify Anthropology and Sociology clearly enough. The most important difference between these two major, in my opinion, is how we conduct the research: for Sociology we are more likely to use the quantitative method, Anthropology we use the qualitative method. Thank you for your sharing that I can broaden my knowledge !!! Hope to hear you sharing more about Anthropology in your future videos
I am so glad this video was so helpful! And yes, you hit the nail on the head in terms of differences between these two fields. It is so easy to mix them up!
I didn't really know the difference between these two until now, and so I always thought to myself I want to do sociology. Now I'm starting to think it was anthropology that I wanted to do the whole time. Just a short question: does anthropology involve environmental issues by some means?
Yes! There's actually a subfield called "environmental anthropology." Here's a link to some more info from UC Davis: anthropology.ucdavis.edu/research/sociocultural-wing-research/environmental-anthropology I hope this helps!
An interesting environmental anthropology project was based on Gerald Murray graduate study of Haitian land tenure which he told USAID he could reforest the land at a much cheaper cost than USAID. Which instead of like in prior projects by using his understanding of Haitian small-holders, he drastically changed the USAID’s approach. Instead of trying to convince small-holders that trees were valuable for their environmental services, he emphasized fast-growing species that could be sold for firewood, charcoal, and lumber. By giving the trees to the small-holders and allowing them to harvest and sell them whenever they wanted, he motivated them to plant and care for the seedlings like any other valuable cash crop.
If anthropology looks at things from less of an overall-group perspective, why does political anthropology exist? Some websites say the difference between political sociology and political anthro is that the first looks at it from more of a top-down perspective, and the latter from more of a bottom-up perspective. Another website suggested that political anthro = political sociology + a broader historical and cultural perspective. Are any of those right?
Hi Alivia, I’m in grade 11. I know that I want to major in Anthropology & Sociology program. I want to be able to study culture and like travel the world, but I don’t know if I’m on the right path like even it’s a good idea. What classes do you suggest me to take for like next year gr12 ?
Hi Shallom! First of all, I think it's amazing that you are already thinking about what path you want to take for undergrad! At most colleges, you will have a lot of flexibility with what courses you take so don't put too much pressure on yourself in high school :) With all that said, I think to best prepare for a degree in Anthropology/Sociology, history courses are a great place to start. This will also depend on what your high school offers. Best of luck and don't hesitate to reach out!
I don't know how much I can help but you might also try and get a leg up by taking classes at your local community college. It wasn't until I graduated high school that I learned AP classes are mostly complete bunk (they do help boost your GPA and college admissions officers like them, but most colleges won't take them for credit, even if you did very well), and it's better to take community college classes if you can because those will always transfer for credit (I tried to while I was in high school, but since I only could take online classes over the summer I always was unable to sign up because the non-high school students got top priority over me). Most community colleges offer a variety of Anthropology, Social Science, and other similar classes that most high schools don't offer so I think that will allow you to explore the major (hopefully you won't have trouble signing up for classes like I did!)
Of course! Broadly speaking, psychologists usually do research with larger sample sizes so they benefit from anthropologists by acknowledging that the entire population is not representative on a person to person basis. Each person is different and anthropologists will give more individualized attention to one or a few people. I hope this helps!
😍Thanks alot your insightful videos on anthropology. I'm majoring for linguistics,I was wondering to know could you recommend some good anthoplinguistic books.thanks
@@AliviaBrown behind the non-fiction story, a kingdom used to be more comfortable making slavery as symbolic of power in the 18-19th century, and what is the experience for those who go through it today seeing the practice of the poor and rich castes is a form of slavery, in terms of modern economy and social status. I mean , supremacy above other . How can i relate this ?
I do now Bs anthropology before this I do Bs English plz tell me I do good ya bad because Bs English are taff subject and now I am confused what I do because all people said Bs Anthropology is no scope in Pakistan and this digree is no value
after watching your video, thinking of a way to simplify this with a half-educated guess, if Anthropology is macro then Sociology is micro? well, there must be a simpler way to relate both fields of studies that would make enough sense lol!
Yes relating these fields can be tough haha! And while I think both ways could be argued I would actually say anthro is micro and sociology is macro! Just because anthropologists usually look at smaller populations while sociologists look to understand entire populations and "majority" statistics if that makes sense. I've never thought about explaining these fields like this-thank you!
Oh no way! Well I hope helped then! I have a list compiled for you of websites and books that I will put in a video soon regardless. Sociology and Anthropology are really closely connected, it's all about perspective haha.
I love your video . I am currently doing my MA in Social Anthropology. I will need your mail to ask some questions as regards what I need to focus on for my Thesis . Thanks
Hi Olumide. What uni are you studying at? And also have you come up with a thesis idea yet? I intend to do an MA in Social Anthropology myself in the near future. Would be nice to connect! :)
Hi! And yes I think you are absolutely correct. Overlap between these fields is undeniable so there will be sociologists who think micro and anthropologists who think macro. I think this video was just a more general summation of the fields but you could not be more right :)
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I'm doing a double major in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology and you've just explained this so well!! I always struggle to explain to people the difference, but from now on I'm gonna try use this explanation, it's so much clearer than the way I try to explain it. Thanks!!
Those degrees seem like the perfect duo, WOW. So glad I could help, and good luck!!
I find myself using the two terms almost interchangeably. If sociology is the study of the struggles faced by different cultures and groups of people, and cultural anthropology studies the beliefs, customs, and development of these same groups, how can you avoid saying that these two disciples are not intertwined?
How can you avoid acknowledging that these two disciplines are intertwined? (Not disciples).
Sociology undergrad here, you did a really good job explaining the difference between the two; given there is a ton of overlap and the fact you only took one soci course. Bravo!
You're half right when you say sociology is primarily focused on statistics. There are definitely PhDs and profs (called quants) who exclusively use those quantitative methods. There are also profs who exclusively use qualitative methods (open ended surveys and interviews). Worse yet, ethnography is a recognized, legitimate qualitative method that those profs use! I haven't really heard of someone using both qualitative and qualitative methods (they should!), but I've been out of uni a while now so I could be wrong.
With further regard to ethnography, we as sociologists recognize the greater society we live in and we also recognize mini-societies (subcultures if you will) of this greater society (ex roofers, fandom/comic con fans, hockey players, etc etc). So ethnographers would live in and study these subcultures and write about their norms and mores, which is also what cultural anthropologists do lol.
There are other distinctions. One is that sociology focuses on the relationships between people and anthropologists focus on culture (ie way of life). Another distinction I've heard is that sociologists have the paradigm that culture is a product of society so we study society. Anthropologists operate with the opposite paradigm, where society is a product of culture and so they study culture.
Even after doing my undergrad, it's still hard for me to see where one ends and where the other begins...at least with cultural anthro (the other three are pretty distinct).
Keep up the great videos and good luck with the rest of your degree!
This is SO thorough, thank you so much for adding to the knowledge pool! Hearing from sociology students has been really helpful in reducing my own biases and experiences to give viewers the best understanding of the real differences between the two. Thank you again, so interesting!
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There needs to be more anthropology representation in education, and I’m so glad you’re contributing to that :) I found your page recently because I’ve been debating switching from a sci major to an anthro major!!
Oh my gosh, thank you! I agree with you 100% and I wish there was more academic representation/anthropology representation online... Anthro has some amazing overlap with STEM (bio especially) and I have had the best experience. I focus on biological anthropology and the "human" perspective it offers is amazing :)
Oooh you should definitely do anthropology!! (Not biased at all lol) I make anthro related videos as a Cal student as well!
Nice video! I'm a sociology major so hopefully I can provide some insight to the sociology side? One could argue that the fundamental unit of sociology is social interaction. Things such as meaning and our realities of how we view the world precipitate from social interactions. So sociology while scientifically driven, can also be extremely abstract and profound just like math or philosophy. Sociology focuses on how humans build and change social structures (large ones like society, or small ones like friend groups) and act as individuals or collectives within these structures; it's concerned about our construction of reality and changes in our behaviors as a result of social interactions. Hope that helps :)
This is AWESOME! I've been waiting for more sociology majors to shed some light on this topic. I completely agree with you, thank you!
Soci grad here, your last two sentences were bang on.
Soci grad here too. You give good supplement for this video! And I want to add something more that may make it more clear. It is that the way of understanding the base of society as social interaction is just one kind of perspectives of sociology to undertand the consitution of society, which is called symbolic interactionism.Aand many other streams of soci give different explanations, like Talcott Parsons who thought society can only be organised when its people internalize all those values and rules and follow them. Generally speaking, sociology has so many ways of explaning this society, it really cares about how society is possible and why it doesn't end up as war of human beings, which is a classic question raised by Hobbes. Maybe that is also some kind of point of the difference between these two subjects, sociology and anthropology.
I like how you simplified things down to how sociology is statistics focused, large groups, social problems and social structures whilst anthropology is divided into four subcategories of linguistics, cultural, biological and archeological and cultural anthropology specifically ethnography focuses on individual experiences within that particular group or culture.
I love both, and I’ve always loved how sociology addresses social structures and social problems. But I also love how anthropology doesn’t necessarily have a political or social justice agenda, and is purely on the anthropology side of things. Both are super interesting to me but I find it so easy to mix them up sometimes. Even though I have read few sociology books, and a few ethnography books and watched a lot of youtube videos on anthropology and linguistics. Its really helpful for me to be able to separate the two fields of study and to delineate the differences between them.
Thank you so much! I love hearing from people who can appreciate the value of both :)
I would say sociology doesn't have a social justice agenda. It is just about the FACTS and those facts may help social justice but anthropology such as applied anthropology also may help social justice.
I am doing Major in Sociology, but you really make antropology sound interesting. Thanks Alivia for the update
Aw, that is so nice! Best of luck with Sociology!
Honestly, I think both Sociology and Anthropology 101 courses should use this video to explain the differences. Very well done, like usual.
This is such high praise, thank you so much!
Excellent. Thank a bunch Alivia Brown. I got much more information from this video. Now I'm a master degrees student at Karakalpaks State university, which is situated in Uzbekistan (Republic of Karakalpakstan), I major in etnography, ethnology and antropologhy. And I just subscribed. Good luck in your work and studies!
UCSD has a new major called Anthropology: Climate Change and Human Solutions! :) Very interesting stuff!
wOAH that's so interesting!! I've never heard of something called human solutions but we neeeed it
Thank you so much! I took anthropology as my optional subject for my government exam to become a diplomat (ministry of foreign affairs)
Of course!! This is so cool, thank you for sharing!
I completed master degree in both the subject (Anthropology and Sociology)....now my research perspective is *Anthrosociological* study.
This is a fun topic! I think of them as being scientific in different/complementary ways and they are also converging somewhat as you mention. Anthro is holistic, so it integrates biological and material culture/physical analyses alongside more humanistic research methods like ethnography, although quantitative analysis has always been part of American anthro. Soc was historically intended to study the science of society and arose within an academic community enamored with quantitative analysis, so they've been more interested in quant, survey research, etc historically. The difference is still there somewhat but anthropology and ethnography have become especially influential, including in soc in the last 15 years, largely because of their advantages for exploring human needs/drivers in greater depth (like digital tech) and with more complete context than quantitative methods or laboratory studies generally allow. American anthro also benefits from being a relatively new field that could addresses some of the shortcomings of others, like soc and bio, while also integrating insights from them. Thanks for the video!
Thank you so much for sharing this perspective-this is great!!
Thanks for you video, I totally agree with you on the overall description, I would add that sociology is actually combining statistic and qualitative research.
You can have a look to Pierre Bourdieu (Sorry I'm French ^^) he imported a lot of anthropology methods to sociology as he thinks that statistics creates / rationalize things that do not exist on the field. He has a more structuralist approach of sociology I definitely recommend you to check him out ^^.
I completely agree with you! Honestly I'm not sure how I forgot to mention that! Sociology is absolutely more quantitative and relies on a lot of statistics. I will absolutely check him out, sounds so interesting. Thank you!
@@AliviaBrown I'm also a junior bachelor student, we're just getting started ^^.
I'm also thinking that you maybe have Emile durkheim in mind as he was more focused on statistics.
If you have any good references of American sociologist I'll be glad to be educated.
Cheers !
@@adrealz276 Wow, so much in common, I love it! And I can't think of any sociologists to share (outside of the big names Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Herbert Spencer, etc.) mostly because my knowledge is mostly in anthropology, With that said though, if I think of anyone I will send a message your way!
@@AliviaBrown thank you ^^
@@AliviaBrown yea maybe back in the day like the 1800s when it was founded up to maybe the 1950s 🤷♀️ it was more quantitative and stats based. And over the years up to now there was a qualitative focus that was added to that. At uni I definetly got that mixed qual/quant feel when being taught...but I feel that once you got higher profs would be either or.
Thank you, it helped a lot!
Of course! So happy to hear it!
I’m currently serving in the military and I’m so fascinated with this field. I’ve gone ahead and re-enlisted for another four years so I might earn my degree in cultural anthropology. In the next video could you give some insight on online courses and pursuing a career in this field? I’d love to be able to get out and make a passion out of this!
First of all, thank you so much for your service. And second, isn't it the best!? I would absolutely love to do that. I do have a video called "careers in anthropology" that I will link for you (th-cam.com/video/cmaOeCd7UxY/w-d-xo.html). It's a bit old now but I think still has a lot of valuable information. I also have a video coming soon about how to engage more with anthropology (books, movies, etc.). In addition to this though, I will look more into your questions and see what kind of online course paths are available. I think it is so great that you want to get involved in this field of study :)
Hello again! Wanted to give you a heads up I just uploaded a video with some great resources on learning about Anthropology. I hope it helps! th-cam.com/video/zzKHATpExmE/w-d-xo.html
Hello Mr. Veteran! I don't know much about anthropology and the military, but I do know there are military sociologists that work with the US mil. You might have heard the term "total institution" and is what the military is. Given the similarities between soci & anthro, I can imagine there are tons of studies on the military from the anthro POV. Cheers and thank you for your service!
Thank you for explaining so clearly!
Of course!
Hey man I just subscribed! Thank you so much, I appreciate the way you explain things
That is so sweet, thank you!!
Awesome vid. Suggestion you might do the recap of major difference with video editing.
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Thank you for the excellent explanation. Ethnography is the subject matter I'm particularly interested in! :)
I really learn a lot here. I am a history major.
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this really helped! thank you!
Of course!!
Thankyou for your explanation, you actually made it easy for me to understand 🙏🧚♀️
Of course!!
I can't say that doing my sociology degree was very statistical. But it is good to learn more about anthropology
Ok. Yes. Thank to. ❤
Its funny that you would use Google to help explain this. One of the things I find myself thinking about constantly is technology,our perception of intelligence and how one day the majority may have access to a device or tech that they would be able to use in the university and how that may change how we think about what it means to be an intelligent individual. For example a person who has access to the best technology may be viewed as an intelligent individual.
This is something I have never considered before but you make an excellent point. Much of our knowledge base is contingent upon the resources we have access to. I will definitely be thinking about this later, thank you!
Im from Malaysia, and my course literally named "Sociology and Social Anthropology" that's mean i study both.. eventhough that a difference between this two field, the overlap of this study have shade the boundaries away.. like you said, in this 21st century, some Anthropologist may use and add on sociologists method to richer they founding, and vise versa some Sociologists might use Ethnographic study to get deep understanding about people that they research on...
Wow, how interesting! I did not know there were courses that offered both!!
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Omg, thank you so much!!
Well you convinced me to take social Anthropology at uni... I made the very controversial decision to continue studying at the age of 22 in hopes of becoming a psychologist. However my local University only offers a BA in humanities program that eventually leads to higher education in psych (honours etc.) granted you take psych as your main subject. So other than having psychology as a main subject I had to choose between all these humanities subjects that I've never even heard of... Eventually it was between sociology and Social Anthropology, and I think I'm personally just far more interested in Anthropology. Anthropology being more focused on the individual and their day to day lives within a community strikes me as much more intriguing then sociological issues... Thanks for the insight!
Hi Hugo! Thank you so much for this thoughtful comment! I love hearing about the path people are taking in regards to academics. Anthropology is incredible and I hope you love it as much as I do!
Hi , i havent study antropoly in university, i have a grade in laws, but i started loving antropology 😍 , interesting material you have in your channel :)!
Hi Maria! I am so happy you like my videos!
isn't law usually one of the highest paying jobs? if you're looking into studying anthropology while quitting law school, it might not be the best thing to do personally but you do you!
Hi Maria, you'd be interested to know that laws are a good metric of what is considered normal in society. Theft, assault, and murder are good examples of this. We as a society find these actions harmful and vulgar so we have laws that punish people who engage in these behaviours (or commit these crimes).
Thank you for clarifying the two, I am currently taking them and I see a similarity but the difference I see is that in Anthropology we talk about animals while in Sociology we talk about people.
Which subfield of anthropology are you studying? Because in socio-cultural anthropology you definitely focus on people, maybe sometimes in interaction with animals, but the focus is on human lives
Am just learning everything. So I can keep wining. Every subject must be reached. System error or epistemology. I only know the tip of the iceberg. But verge to destroy my emotions
Never really would’ve thought this is someone would mix up.
Massively helpful, I'm struggling to workout the differences here in the UK -where we tend to call it Social Anthropology. Its also often combined with Sociology too. Before this video Social/cultural Anthropology just seemed to be Sociology with Ethnography/participant observation but your video has really helped explain. thanks
Yes, this is so true in the US as well! Social anthropology, cultural anthropology, and sociology are all so similar so I'm really glad to hear this video was able to disentangle them a little bit. Not sure if you still need this, but I actually made a video on social anthropology more specifically that I'll link here: th-cam.com/video/jTDMhjfTZ5M/w-d-xo.html Thanks so much for the comment!
I don't know if i should choose psychology or anthropology or sociology
Hello! All of these fields are such amazing ones. If I were to boil these down extremely simplistically, anthro is studying human experiences, sociology is studying human statistics, and psychology is studying the human mind. A lot is left out in this (clearly) but it may help get you on the right track. Good luck!
This video is so helpful, it helps me clarify Anthropology and Sociology clearly enough. The most important difference between these two major, in my opinion, is how we conduct the research: for Sociology we are more likely to use the quantitative method, Anthropology we use the qualitative method. Thank you for your sharing that I can broaden my knowledge !!! Hope to hear you sharing more about Anthropology in your future videos
I am so glad this video was so helpful! And yes, you hit the nail on the head in terms of differences between these two fields. It is so easy to mix them up!
So why hasn't anyone questioned psychology into this mix?
I didn't really know the difference between these two until now, and so I always thought to myself I want to do sociology. Now I'm starting to think it was anthropology that I wanted to do the whole time. Just a short question: does anthropology involve environmental issues by some means?
Yes! There's actually a subfield called "environmental anthropology." Here's a link to some more info from UC Davis: anthropology.ucdavis.edu/research/sociocultural-wing-research/environmental-anthropology I hope this helps!
@@AliviaBrown thank you!
An interesting environmental anthropology project was based on Gerald Murray graduate study of Haitian land tenure which he told USAID he could reforest the land at a much cheaper cost than USAID. Which instead of like in prior projects by using his understanding of Haitian small-holders, he drastically changed the USAID’s approach. Instead of trying to convince small-holders that trees were valuable for their environmental services, he emphasized fast-growing species that could be sold for firewood, charcoal, and lumber. By giving the trees to the small-holders and allowing them to harvest and sell them whenever they wanted, he motivated them to plant and care for the seedlings like any other valuable cash crop.
Great video!
Thank you!!
If anthropology looks at things from less of an overall-group perspective, why does political anthropology exist?
Some websites say the difference between political sociology and political anthro is that the first looks at it from more of a top-down perspective, and the latter from more of a bottom-up perspective. Another website suggested that political anthro = political sociology + a broader historical and cultural perspective. Are any of those right?
Hi Alivia,
I’m in grade 11. I know that I want to major in Anthropology & Sociology program. I want to be able to study culture and like travel the world, but I don’t know if I’m on the right path like even it’s a good idea. What classes do you suggest me to take for like next year gr12 ?
Hi Shallom! First of all, I think it's amazing that you are already thinking about what path you want to take for undergrad! At most colleges, you will have a lot of flexibility with what courses you take so don't put too much pressure on yourself in high school :) With all that said, I think to best prepare for a degree in Anthropology/Sociology, history courses are a great place to start. This will also depend on what your high school offers. Best of luck and don't hesitate to reach out!
I don't know how much I can help but you might also try and get a leg up by taking classes at your local community college. It wasn't until I graduated high school that I learned AP classes are mostly complete bunk (they do help boost your GPA and college admissions officers like them, but most colleges won't take them for credit, even if you did very well), and it's better to take community college classes if you can because those will always transfer for credit (I tried to while I was in high school, but since I only could take online classes over the summer I always was unable to sign up because the non-high school students got top priority over me). Most community colleges offer a variety of Anthropology, Social Science, and other similar classes that most high schools don't offer so I think that will allow you to explore the major (hopefully you won't have trouble signing up for classes like I did!)
Hello thanks for this video! I would want to know how psychologists can benefit from the work of anthropologists?
Thanking you in advance!
Of course! Broadly speaking, psychologists usually do research with larger sample sizes so they benefit from anthropologists by acknowledging that the entire population is not representative on a person to person basis. Each person is different and anthropologists will give more individualized attention to one or a few people. I hope this helps!
😍Thanks alot your insightful videos on anthropology. I'm majoring for linguistics,I was wondering to know could you recommend some good anthoplinguistic books.thanks
Thank you your video help me
I’m so glad!!
Does individual behaviour define the entire community in some place ?
I would argue that it never does! There is still a lot of variation within communities in addition to between communities.
@@AliviaBrown behind the non-fiction story, a kingdom used to be more comfortable making slavery as symbolic of power in the 18-19th century, and what is the experience for those who go through it today seeing the practice of the poor and rich castes is a form of slavery, in terms of modern economy and social status. I mean , supremacy above other .
How can i relate this ?
Was thinking that , assimilation between ethnic … whats your thought about it ?
I m studying anthropology...as per my view please see Vaid's ics video on TH-cam for same topic is more original
Hii I actually want to study sociology...so can you please say whether UCLA is the best university for sociology?
I do now Bs anthropology before this I do Bs English plz tell me I do good ya bad because Bs English are taff subject and now I am confused what I do because all people said Bs Anthropology is no scope in Pakistan and this digree is no value
I am doing Anthropology in Pakistan but people are saying it has no scope
Depends on what you do with it! Sociology definitely covers a higher # of individuals but I would argue anthropology digs deeper. Both are great!
after watching your video, thinking of a way to simplify this with a half-educated guess, if Anthropology is macro then Sociology is micro? well, there must be a simpler way to relate both fields of studies that would make enough sense lol!
Yes relating these fields can be tough haha! And while I think both ways could be argued I would actually say anthro is micro and sociology is macro! Just because anthropologists usually look at smaller populations while sociologists look to understand entire populations and "majority" statistics if that makes sense. I've never thought about explaining these fields like this-thank you!
I always think of sociology as macro. But, thats from my lifetime focus and degree in psychology.
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Ok ... I think I meant sociology in ur prev upload 😳
Oh no way! Well I hope helped then! I have a list compiled for you of websites and books that I will put in a video soon regardless. Sociology and Anthropology are really closely connected, it's all about perspective haha.
I love your video . I am currently doing my MA in Social Anthropology. I will need your mail to ask some questions as regards what I need to focus on for my Thesis . Thanks
Aw thank you for your kind support! My email is aliviabrown329@gmail.com
Hi Olumide. What uni are you studying at? And also have you come up with a thesis idea yet?
I intend to do an MA in Social Anthropology myself in the near future. Would be nice to connect! :)
@@brodie2379 Great , I major in People with Disability.
Vytautas Magnus University. Lithuania Europe
Traditional societies = Anthropology, Modern societies = Sociology
I think anthropologist also look at the 'macro" dimensions of problems. At least, i do that ahahaha (I'm and anthropologist as well)
Hi! And yes I think you are absolutely correct. Overlap between these fields is undeniable so there will be sociologists who think micro and anthropologists who think macro. I think this video was just a more general summation of the fields but you could not be more right :)
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Thank you, this really helped !
Of course, I am so happy to hear that!