Anthropology is the study of the historical development of man, and it take two forms: Cultural and Physical Anthropology.
Sociology is the study of how societies are organized and function, and how people within those societies interact.
Political Science is the study of the forms of government societies create to help them function
There are links between sociology, anthropology and political science.
To begin with, I would like to define these disciplines one at a time.
Sociology is the general study of groups and group behaviour.
Anthropology is the scientific study of cultures, both past and present.
Political science is the study of power and power relations that exist between and among people.
There's obviously a connection here. Now, anthropology, sociology and political science are interdisciplinary courses, in the sense that elements of one could be found in another.
Between Sociology and anthropology, the connection goes thus. Basically, we study bits of anthropology in sociology. We study culture in sociology and anthropology. We learn how people behave, how what they do defines them. We want to know what separates the Malawians from the Nigerians. We want to know why the Yoruba culture is almost totally different from the Igbo culture.
