Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Understanding what makes a story “newsworthy” is one area social scientists can quickly learn and apply to inform their foray into journalism.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

An analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, for example, found that young adults who found jobs through informal networks had higher wages relative to those who used more formal job searching and application techniques. But education just isn’t there yet. Yosso published her seminal Race Ethnicity and Education article in 2005.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In a 1934 lecture on techniques of the body, for example, Marcel Mauss argued that studies of movement should attend concomitantly to biological, sociological and psychological facets. This particular activity comes on the heels of a discussion of cultural universals in comparative perspective. Human hygiene is taken as an example.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2020

We are two sociology professors who live and do research in New York City. We have concluded that the city must reimagine the culture of its police department with community-policing reform. It is different than community policing because it does not change the culture of all police officers, just a select few. Can it be fixed?

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 18, 2024

If something was bothering my student, disciplinary actions, or positive behavior was happening, I would immediately inform the student’s parents. Learn about the students and their families, cultures, backgrounds, and interests. Add to cart Sociology Course $ 200.00 Please get to know the students and their families.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Although Black Americans reinvented and established a unique culture, we’re eternally connected to the sub-Sahara. It opens with an explanation of its title and its connection to Black culture. King calls “ diaspora literacy ” to contend with the reflection of white supremacy in my paternal lineage and its connection to world history.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Graeber also analyzes the “bullshitization” of “real jobs,” such as in education, where new cultures of neoliberal “managerialism” have seen teachers and academics doing increasing amounts of administrative work, taking up more and more of the time that, most agree, would be better spent doing actual teaching or research.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

It was two weeks before the university would be abruptly shut down by the coronavirus, and every corner of the campus seemed jampacked — except this quiet classroom, where a handful of students were studying the societies and cultures of the Caribbean. So the projects brought in teams from African studies programs who understood the culture.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Worldview Worldview is the set of cultural and psychological beliefs held by members of a particular culture; the term was borrowed from the German Weltanschauung. In Redfield’s book The Folk Culture of Yucatan (1941), he expressed an embryonic concern with the concept of world view.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The earliest of these village descriptions, Redfield's Tepoztlan (1930), emerged out of a concern with the 'human ecology' of communities, which marked the school of urban sociology developed at the University of Chicago under the auspices of Redfield's father-in-law, Robert E. in fact he was talking about 'peasants' [1967:4].

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

When you’re the only one, you don’t have much choice but to conform to the culture. When there are many of you, you get to shape the culture.” When you’re the only one, you don’t have much choice but to conform to the culture,” she said. When there are many of you, you get to shape the culture.”. Credit: Marisol Barajas.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

But students can be reluctant to use these sanctioned channels, or to show up in person for office hours, says Megan McNamara, a continuing lecturer in sociology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. And she advises professors to resist the temptation to get involved with these informal channels at all.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Of course, data should inform decisions. That is precisely why business students need to learn psychology, history, sociology, culture and art. Students unearth a culture and a different way of thinking when learning another language. Still, to understand human nature, leaders need to do more than crunch numbers.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. And so on… .

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

During my 12 years of teaching sociology, social justice and critical race theory at the university level and in my role as a director of student diversity and inclusion, I have also seen students shift in their approach to diversity. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These founders, hailing from leading universities as well as the US Atomic Energy Commission, IBM Corp and New York Life Insurance, knew that connecting the humanities and sciences helps us make informed judgments about our control of nature, ourselves and our destiny. Bringing the Disciplines Together. Challenges of 21st-Century Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

I don’t think it happens on purpose,” said Hayes, who graduated in May and now works in information technology. At a big institution, it’s easier to be around people who have similar backgrounds in terms of your culture and even your race,” said Mai Xiong, reflecting on her experience when she attended the University of Minnesota. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

per day, for a three-meal-a-day dining contract that covers the eight months or so of a typical academic year, according to information the institutions provide to college guide Peterson’s. The average college and university charges about $4,500, or $18.75 Sometimes I look at the meal I’m eating and I’m, like, I have two eggs and toast.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

It includes the dispersal of administration or governance in sectors or areas like engineering, management science, political science, political economy, sociology and economics. In management science there are studies of the ideal size of corporations, and some in anthropology and sociology study the ideal size of villages.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Courses range from “The Sociology of Sport” to “Songwriting and Singing in a Prison Choir” and are primarily taught in person through the University of Iowa or through an associate-degree program with Iowa Central Community College.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2016

We wanted to let people have a space to just talk, be and make signs because I know that making signs is a form of grieving,” said Joseph Coco, matriculating doctoral student in Sociology at LSU and a principal organizer at the “sign making and information meeting.”. Whether it’s in Baton Rouge, St. Photo: Andre Perry.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Researchers say that’s because they feel out of step with campus culture. More information about the topics covered in this episode: Learn more about the STARS Network. Just since 2016, the proportion of rural students who enroll in college has dropped even more. Criminal justice. Philosophy. Political science.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Since the residence’s opening in 2018, 21 CSUF students have been given safe, secure housing with wraparound services provided by formerly incarcerated staff members who reinforce a culture of striving and mattering. Jimmie Conner is an undergraduate at California State University, Fullerton, studying sociology and business.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Route—a space created from movement—is one of four types of spatial figure in sociology of space (as proposed by Martina Löw and Hubert Knoblauch ). The citizen action groups highlighted different issues, from conserving endangered species to preserving cultural landscapes.

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Anthropology for Beginners

APRIL 29, 2021

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Definition: Urban Anthropology examines the social organization of the city, looking at the kinds of social relationship and pattern of social life unique to cities and comparing their different cultural and historical contexts. Roberts 1978).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. Catherine Epstein: We have the papers of some relatively famous alums, and then we have lots of information just on the history of the college. And that has consequences for how much they learn in higher education.

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ShortCutsTV

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Many of you will be familiar with the Cornetto Trilogy of films, the brilliant Shaun of the Dead, the equally-funny Hot Fuzz and that third one they brought-out because of some contract obligation. Allegedly. I could be wrong. Anyways, far be it for me to compare this trilogy with that trilogy. There simply is no […]

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

For politically oriented students, such campus organizations can be crucial parts of their college experience, said Amy Binder, a professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University’s SNF Agora Institute, which is dedicated to furthering civic engagement and informed dialogue.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2024

It feels like a broader attack on truthweve moved backwards, Natasha Warikoo, a professor of sociology at Tufts who has written widely on affirmative action, told me. Shes among those who believe in its benefits, supported by a large body of research.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This is done by manipulating the ‘filter’ used by the target, this is used to refer to the collection of concepts, knowledge, ideas and experience through which they make decisions and distinctions between information which is useful/useless or true/false (Thomas, 2004: 247). such targeting is seemingly relatively easy.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Formally, he was the director of a place that we hold very dear, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The most important thing they did is they redefined their crime, not as crimes of nationality, of an innate culture. Her solution was not to denigrate the cultures of these people. Thanks, T.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

But these same students who don’t have access to medically accurate, up-to-date information have to live with the consequences. Teenage moms don’t have access to that type of information, and they believe everything they read or hear on social media. Most receive an abstinence-only education, if they receive sex education at all.”

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