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Navigating the Challenges & Considerations of Fieldwork: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

Her ongoing work includes a co-edited volume on concepts, data, and methods in comparative law and politics, and projects examining institutions of electoral governance in Latin America, and how research methods are used in political science scholarship.

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Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China

Anthropology News

Even amid the industry’s decline, P2P investors unaffected by platform bankruptcy were reportedly “the happiest” in China, per a 2018 China Academy of Social Sciences survey. The post Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Cultural Dimensions of health - Introduction

Anthropology for Beginners

A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e, medical anthropology has engage in both basic research into health and healing systems and applied research aimed at the improvement of therapeutic care in clinical settings or community public health programs in prevention and disease control. A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e,

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Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom

Sapiens

But a few days before we met on Zoom to discuss the book, the news broke that Hage had been fired from his position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany. To start, this means insisting that a scholar’s work is more than their social media presence. Everyone was enthusiastic to do so.

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Elevating Social Studies with High-Quality Instructional Materials

TCI

Social studies is more than just a subject—it provides the foundation for understanding and engaging with the world around us. According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence.

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Anthropology against Behavioral Science

Anthropology News

While these trends have been underway in the subfields of global health and economic development for some time, increasingly similar demands are being made for the incorporation of SBS into the fields of democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG). In this article, I begin with a brief overview of SBS in DRG work.

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Trump plan would base student loans on employability

The Hechinger Report

By the time they’re at the peak of their careers, in their mid-50s, people who majored as undergraduates in the humanities or social sciences earn about $2,000 a year more than their classmates who majored in professional or pre-professional fields, a report by the Association of American Colleges and Universities found.