Priyamvada Ashok MhaddalkarAIR 13 · CSE 2021 · 152 wordsTheir whole copy
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Anthropology is the study of primitive/pre-industrial societies while Sociology primarily concerns itself with the study of complex, modern, industrial societies.
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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY
Societies being studied → simple v/s complex
Methods of study: Anthropology → ethnography, participant observation Sociology → both quantitative and qualitative methods
Research Design :- Anthropology : Exploratory Sociology: From a particular perspective-functional conflict, etc.
Despite these differences, there is 'union' between the two fields :-
Social structures like kinship groups, family, culture are the common areas of study
Sociologists have borrowed from the works of anthropologists like Malinowski's Trobriand Island study. M.N. Srinivas → from A.R. Radcliffe Brown's structural functionalism, etc.
Particularly in countries like India the two fields converged in the study of tribals post-independence and village studies.
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With lesser number of primitive societies existing due to increasing globalisation the union of anthropology and sociology is considered much desirable.