ANTHROPOLOGY

Humanistic Approach to Anthropology

Humanistic Approach to Anthropology

The Humanistic Approach to anthropology was established as a way to expand and consequently improve upon the two other schools of thought; behaviorism and psychoanalysis, which had, up until the first half of the 20th century dominated psychology.

Behaviorism, which is called the first force in psychology, is a science based psychology that takes an objective view of people's learned behavior. Behaviorists believe that human beings are a product of their environment as opposed to a more complex combination of thoughts, feelings and beliefs. Humanists accept as true this to be an outlook that is both ...