Social Science

The Anthropological Perspective: The Concept of Culture As a social science discipline, much of what anthropology studies, and particularly cultural anthropology and archeology, is related to a core concept within the discipline of anthropology. This is the concept of “culture.”…
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Anger is a good emotion.  It indicates that there is something wrong in our environment.  The causes of anger range from being insulted or ignored to being obstructed in some way.  Anger expressed is liberating, but unpredictable.  Yet, open expressions…
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Alike myriad early cultures, writing was not invented during the time, which the First Americans arrived and settled in the Americas. Therefore, extensive research must be completed to uncover the deep and hidden truth that lie inside many excavations within…
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Anxiety was defined in the Acute Anxiety article and will not be dealt with in detail in this one. Remember, however, that it is a physical response mediated, primarily, by the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system and a…
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For many years many people within our society have had very misleading and very unfair views and opinions of our prehistoric ancestors. This has meant that both our ancestors and their importance have been taken for granted for many years….
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The sociocultural view of psychology is that psyche development occurs in response to social influence and social interactions. The premise is that interpersonal communication stimulates cognitive development. The view grew out of L.S. Vygotsky’s research in Russia during the 1920s…
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The Antiquities Minister of Egypt Mohamed Ibrahim announced in January 2013 that Italian archaeologists working in Luxor made a new discovery. According to the “Huffington Post,” the Italians discovered tombs more than 3,000 years old beneath the temple of King…
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The Demographic Transition The decline of fertility rates in the Western world (or more accurately, the modern industrialized countries) is referred to as “the demographic transition” in the anthropological literature (Bodley 2001; Robbins 2005). The “fertility rate” itself refers to…
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Religion has shaped our entire social system and had a major influence on civilization and the values that define it. Religion has shaped our political systems, our justice systems and practices, our architecture and music, and our minds. It is…
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Revelation from Ancient Trash Dump In the northern part of Egypt a city thrived for more than a thousand years, living, loving, and throwing away ‘trash’. In the early 1800’s two archeologists stumbled upon the location of the city dump…
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