ANTHROPOLOGY AND

SOCIOLOGY WITH
POPULATION EDUCATION
AND DEMOGRAPHY
FAMILY PLANNING AND
REPORDUCTIVE HEALTH

BEAH L. MALLARI
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ANTHROPOLOGY

SOCIOLOGY

SOCIETY

SOCIAL INTERACTION

COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR

CULTURE

FAMILY

BIRTH CCNTROL
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BIRTH ANTHROPOLOGY
CONTROL
is the use of any
practices, methods, or
devices to prevent
pregnancy from
occurring in a sexually active woman. is the scientific study of the origins
Also referred to as family planning, of humans, how we have changed
pregnancy prevention, fertility over the years, and how we relate
control, or contraception; birth to each other, both within our own
control methods are designed either culture and with people from other
to prevent fertilization of an egg or cultures
implantation of a fertilized egg in the
uterus.
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SOCIOLOGY
is the study of human
FAMILY
social relationships
and institutions.
Sociology’s subject
matter is diverse,
ranging from crime
to religion, from the
family to the state, Social unit of two or more persons
from the divisions of race and social class to the
shared beliefs of a common culture, and from
related by blood, marriage, or
social stability to radical change in whole societies. adoption and having a shared
Unifying the study of these diverse subjects of
commitment to the mutual
study is sociology’s purpose of understanding how
human action and consciousness both shape and relationship.
are shaped by surrounding cultural and social
structures.
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CULTURE
Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit,
of and for behavior acquired and transmitted by
symbols, constituting the distinctive achievement
of human groups, including their embodiments in
artifacts; the essential core of culture consists of
traditional ideas and especially their attached
values; culture systems may, on the one hand, be
considered as products of action, on the other
hand, as conditioning influences upon further
action.
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SOCIETY
is a grouping of individuals, which is
characterized by common interest and may have
distinctive culture and institutions. A "society"
may refer to a particular ethnic group, such as
the Nuer, to a nation state, such as Switzerland,
or to a broader cultural group, such as Western
society. An organized group of people associated
together for religious, benevolent, cultural,
scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes
may also be considered a society.
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SOCIAL COLLECTIVE
INTERACTION
is a social exchange
BEHAVIOR
refers to the spontaneous and unstructured
between two or more
behavior of a group of people in response to the
individuals. These
same event, situation, or problem, like this crowd of
interactions form the people, for example. These events do not conform
basis for social to typical structures that other events are formed
structure and around, such as rules or laws, but are not
therefore are necessarily deviant in nature either.
a key object of basic social inquiry and
analysis. Social interaction can be studied
between groups of two (dyads), three (triads)
or larger social groups.