title: SOCIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, ORIENTALISM AND THE OTHER
abstract: In the most general sense, the subjects of study for sociology, anthropology and orientalism are human societies. However, each of these disciplines focuses on a different type of society historically and as differentiated in time, and have different fields of research. The three disciplines completed their processes of institutionalization in the 19th century and the borders between them and their respective fields of responsibility were defined in broad lines. The change in the West&amp;#039;s