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Social Anthropology: Sociological Foundations

ОК7

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First

2024/2025

1 Semester

4

Know: Modern scientific understanding of the co-evolution of man and society The main stages of evolution of society and patterns of transition between them Basic theoretical approaches of social anthropology to the explanation of the orderliness of social life Be able: It is correct to use the basic conceptual apparatus of social sciences in oral discussion Define scientific and everyday concepts To determine the theoretical and methodological principles of sociological research Participate in an oral scientific discussion

Full-time form

1. Have a general idea of the stages of human history (based on the school history course) 2. Have a general idea of the theory of evolution (based on the school course of biology) 3. Be able to work with scientific literature

The concept of anthroposociogenesis. Methods and difficulties of studying the evolutionary past of man. The relationship of social and biological in the formation of modern man. Behavioral modernity. Formation and settlement of anatomically and behaviorally modern man. Concepts, preconditions of origin and significance of human culture. Neolithic revolution and the rise of complex societies. Industrial revolution, formation and features of modern societies. Historical background, intellectual origins and subject area of ​​social anthropology. Religious life, thinking, mentality and exchange in primitive societies: the problems of the French school of social anthropology. Functional analysis of primitive society in the theories of the British school. The place of economics and material factors in the Marxist approach to the analysis of primitive societies. Claude Levi-Strauss's Structural Anthropology and Clifford Geertz's Interpretationist Paradigm.

Brown, Donald E. Human Universals, Human Nature & Human Culture // Daedalus. – Vol. 133. – No. 4. – 2004. – Pp. 47–54. Päabo, Svante. Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes. – New York: Basic Books, 2014. – P. 185–200. Pirages Dennis. Nature, disease, and globalization: An evolutionary perspective / Globalization as Evolutionary Process: Modeling Global Change / Ed. by George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, and William R. Thompson. – New York: Routledge, 2008. – Pp. 226–241. Karl Polanyi. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. – Boston: Beacon Press, 2001. – Chapter 4. Stringer Chris. Lone Survivors: How We Came to be the Only Humans on Earth. – New York: Times Books, 2012. – P. 16–35, 171–204, 265–278.

Lecture, seminar, student's self-work

- semester assessment: 1. CW1 - 20 points / 12 points 2. CW 2 - 20 points / 12 points 3.CW 3 - 20 points / 12 points 4. CW4 - 20 points / 12 points 5. Participation in the seminar discussion - 20 points / 12 points - final assessment: pass-exam

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