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The Emic Perspective of Generative AI

Teaching Anthropology

Loaded-definitions aside, I think we are focusing on the wrong thing here. There have been course-grained sociological studies on students perceptions of AI (e.g. I, for one, refuse to believe that humans, from whatever socioeconomic background, are suddenly unable to succeed without a modern technological innovation.

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More students are dropping out of college during Covid — and it could get worse

The Hechinger Report

It definitely affected my mental health.”. Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of sociology and medicine, Temple University. Largent said Michigan State has provided additional financial help to the highest-need students, and has also been digging through data to figure out which students might benefit most from some human contact.

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Worldview

Anthropology for Beginners

Every world view distinguishes (a) part of the self from another part, thus establishing, as it were, a dialogue within the self; (b) a human nature from that which is nonhuman; (c) classes and categories of the human, i.e., social persons (e.g., Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4.

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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

The roots of the anthropological interest in peasants were elsewhere, in the comparative study of the human condition. The central issue to which the early studies were addressed was the nature of human communities; they were, first of all, village studies, and only incidentally studies of peasants.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S.

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

Megan Hickerson: And I knew the humanities, because the humanities are always under attack these days, right? Molly Minta: For Black Mississippians from rural areas, college is definitely about opportunity, about helping, you know, get jobs that only degrees can unlock. Criminal justice. Philosophy. Political science.

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The skull maps that quantified racism

Strange Maps

A landscape of human skull shapes These black-and-white maps are aesthetically attractive as well as invitingly strange. ” To be more precise: these maps plot a landscape of human skull shapes. ” The briefest possible definition of that term is “the quantification of prejudice.” 81, and 85, respectively.