Social and culture anthropology- Beginnings and scope

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Social anthropology deals primarily with the study of social relationships and the study of what we call social institutions like family, kinship, political institutions and economic institutions. The Study Norms And rules of behavior and the structures that constitute society.
Cultural anthropologists study symbols and meaning systems, they study values and beliefs and what are the underlying principles that guide action. Although related, the two branches emphasize different aspects and approach their subject matter differently.

Academic beginnings:
Historically the social anthropological perspective was developed in Britain and the European continent, following the French School of Mauss, Hubert and Durkheim. The doyens of the social anthropological perspective were scholars like A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Bronisław Malinowski, Raymond Firth and others of the British school and they influenced Indian anthropologists like M.N. Srinivas and others. Structures of hierarchy, co-operation and association, formal rules of behaviour and norms of interaction forms the focus of social anthropological analysis.
The discipline of anthropology was finally established as a distinct discipline with Edward B. Tylor assuming the chair of anthropology at the Oxford University

Cultural anthropology developed in the U.S.A for historical reasons. The founding father of cultural anthropology in America was Franz Boas. He was followed by his students, such as Alfred Kroeber, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, RuthBunzeland other distinguished scholars like Darryl Forde, Melville Herskovits, Ralph Linton and others. It deals more with the super-organic (cultural) aspects than with actual existing social relationships as most of the indigenous people of America were dispersed or eliminated in the process of colonization.

Socio-cultural Anthropology, in its current form, is a younger field. Earlier, it existed as:
Social Anthropology in Britain ( popularized by Radcliffe Brown )
Cultural Anthropology in the USA ( popularized by Franz Boas )
However, considering the superficial dichotomy between the 2 fields, A.L. Kroeber, in 1948, took the lead and merged the 2 branches into one, calling them Socio-cultural Anthropology. The same was accepted later at the International Symposium of Social Sciences at Geneva.

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