UCSP REVIEWER Bronislaw Malinowski - Father of
ethnographic methodology by most field
Dynamism of Cultural, Social, and
Political Change
Innovations
- Refinements, new applications and
reworking of existing inventions,
(Ferrante 1995).
- Anthropologist Leslie White (1949)
maintains that the rate of change is
tied to the size of the cultural base,
the number of pre-existing
inventions.
- Significant in understanding and
identifying social change because
they alter the way people think and
relate to one another.
Organizations differ from one another for three
reasons:
1. Interaction isolates and differentiates
them;
2. Their histories are unique; and
3. The problems with which their social
patterns must deal are different and
this influences what patterns are in
turn developed.
Anthropology
❖ The study of humans and human
behavior and societies in the past
and present. It is wide-ranging,
including fossil remains, non-human
primate anatomy and behavior,
artifacts from past cultures, past and
present languages, and all the
prehistoric and contemporary
cultures of the world.
Franz Bass - Father of American
Anthropology
working anthropologists because of his
ideas on participant observation.
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe Brown -
Developed the theory of structural
functionalism and coadaptation.
Sociology
➢ The scientific study of society,
patterns of social relationships,
social interactions, and culture. It is
the systematic interpretation of code
and conduct in the form of language,
symbols, face expression, dress,
food, music etc. used by people in
society.
Auguste Comte - Founder of the discipline
of sociology and of the doctrine of positivsm
Harriet Martineau - Centered by a staunch
moral perspective that stemmed
Karl Marx - The father of modern socialism
, communism and conflict theory.
Emile Durkleim - Formally established the
academic discipline and with Karl Marx and
Max Weber. Commonly cited as the
principal architect of modern social sciences
Max Weber - Max Weber was a German
sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political
economist whose ideas profoundly
influenced social theory and social
research.
Social Change
★ Refers to an alteration of mechanism
within the social structure,
characterized by changes in cultural
symbols.
Cultural Change
★ The modification of a society through
innovations, invention, discovery, or
contact with other societies or
seniors
Political Change
★ Refers to a subject matter that is
constant flux. It deals with the major
process of growth, decay, and
breakdown but alos with ceaseless
ferment of adaptation and
adjustment