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. Grafting ethnography onto journalism has been suggested for decades—it’s time to put it into practice.

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ShortCutsTV

JANUARY 20, 2025

Three short(ish) films dredged-up from The Archive (Im not exactly sure which Archive but it probably sounds more-authentic than found on an old neglected hard drive) that provide a good overview of the major theoretical strands in the history of sociological theorising about crime and deviance.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Anthropology has long since engaged with challenging topics, and indeed carries its own challenging histories, and researchers continue to generate key insights into the lived realities of trauma survivors. We also encourage those from cognate disciplines such as sociology, and from researchers using ethnographic methods.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2024

History reminds us that counterattacks have followed every advancement in equity and inclusion, from Brown vs. Board of Education to affirmative action. Megan Thiele Strong is a sociology professor at San José State University and a 2023-24 Public Voices fellow at the The OpEd Project. DEI instructors are suffering the consequences.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Our Towns , James Fallows and Deborah Fallows [economic development, sociology]. Phantom Warrior , Forrest Bryant Johnson [history]. An Echo of Things to Come , James Islington [fantasy]. Into the Looking Glass , John Ringo [sci fi]. Hope you’re reading something fun too! No related posts.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. And it will differ from programs in military studies at colleges around the country, which focus on strategy, military systems and the history of warfare. For almost as long as there have been wars, there have been people who study veterans.

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 18, 2024

You might also like this to give you time back to foster positive parent teacher relationship United States History Course $ 200.00 Add to cart Sociology Course $ 200.00 Working as a team with parents will ensure that they can trust you, listen to you, and be more open to communicating throughout the school year.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The University of Alaska system has scaled back more than 40 academic programs , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources, sociology, hospitality administration and theater. Subjects such as history teach about the past as a lens into the present, she said.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The New York Times podcast “Nice White Parents” illustrated this process at several points in the long history of just one school. Related: Measuring diversity without holding schools accountable won’t bring about integration.

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C3 Teachers

APRIL 10, 2022

You can address history, economics, sociology, you know all the facets of social studies. Some of the major goals were to address history told from multiple perspectives and told through a culturally responsive lens. You can do that through the Inquiry Design Model. Thank you, Nick.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

With a focus on diverse life histories, the project shows how one crisis can cascade into another, morphing into a constellation of social, interpersonal, aspirational and financial losses. For example, Ricardo, a Latino man in his early 50s, is a bartender at a restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2022

Liberal arts fields such as English and history routinely come in far below, suggesting that a life of genteel poverty awaits those who enjoy Jane Austen. Very few of my own sociology students became professional sociologists. Four years spent studying them carefully will generate priceless returns. Daniel Chambliss the Eugene M.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g., This future-looking function remains true as we consider, for example, the rise of ChatGPT and other AI-fueled programs.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The film is a straightforward history lesson and explainer, and a great way to understand this highly fraught debate over fairness and meritocracy. The film also provides a clear picture of the arguments and history behind the specific lawsuits the court will soon hear, and shows how they have divided Asian American and other communities.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Will history repeat? Former Florida governor and now senator Rick Scott set up a task force that recommended public universities charge more for “non-strategic majors” such as history and English. “Is These programs started because of political pressures, and the political pressures are no longer there.” I don’t think so.”.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Former NPR education reporter Anya Kamenetz writes about a related trend in her latest column for Hechinger: Colleges embedding climate-related content into all sorts of classes — sociology, history, English literature, French. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

We understand things in slightly different ways because of our histories and backgrounds. The result is that we consistently sort and select students based on their cultural histories, ways of knowing and prior opportunities to learn. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Paul Attewell, a sociology and education professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the second author. “These students are establishing a work history and it signals to employers that you show up on time, take direction and have the capacity for work.” “That’s also a lesson.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. Full of interesting observations and suggestions, the generalizations come thick and fast (with varying degrees of evidence to support them).

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

i] History of the usage: The word “peasant” appears in English in late medieval and early modern times, when it was used to refer to the rural poor, rural residents, serfs, agricultural laborers, and the “common” or “simple” people. 1500,” in The Fontana Economic History of Europe: The Middle Ages, ed. 3–4 (October 1972): 391. [v]

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

This process is often not straightforward and indeed medicine has changed its mind over history as to what the aetiologies (causes) of various diseases are and even as to what the body looks like. Throughout most of history this interaction is what doctors have based their diagnosis and treatment pop. Foucault, M. London: Routledge.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2018

Students studying history or sociology or chemistry learn some specific information about a subject but, in a broader sense, those subjects are merely conduits through which students learn even more important non-subject-specific skills like writing, problem-solving, analytic thinking, oral communication, creative expression and more.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

And even if young men resolve to go to college later, he said, history shows that “their chances of actually coming back to higher ed are probably slim to none.”. Now he plans to get a degree in sociology. “It makes more sense right now just to say, ‘I’m going to take a break because my family needs this money,’ ” said Huerta.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

It is not a “history course for engineers.” A wide range of departments including engineering, anthropology, classics, history, English, sociology and philosophy participate in its teaching. The course is different from other freshman-oriented courses. And it is not an “engineering course for humanists.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

Related: OPINION: We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history in our schools. Natasha Warikoo is professor of sociology at Tufts University and a former Guggenheim fellow. So what’s the harm in the positive stereotype of Asian American parents valuing education more than other parents do?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2023

However, at this point in history, that is not the case for Black and Latino students, even for those who demonstrate exceptionally high educational ability. Erick Ramirez Manriquez is a sociology Ph.D. student at UC San Diego, studying the impact of race on students’ identity construction and educational attainment.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We In history, students might pick historical characters and analyze major events of their era from the character’s perspective. We watch the show and dissect it.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

That is precisely why business students need to learn psychology, history, sociology, culture and art. “Indeed, those who look down on the arts in favor of a solely quantitative education risk losing their edge.”. Without the liberal arts, they cannot have a complete long-term vision, a necessity for any business executive.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. But since this performance, the university has ended its music program.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4. In its current connotation, worldview is seen as a combination of the following information which social scientists can gather from the field (E. Mendelson 1956): 1. Cognitive systems at the level of the scientific world view 2.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2020

The Penn Relays track-and-field competition, for example, which began in 1895 and was the longest uninterrupted collegiate track competition in history, has been canceled for the first time, affecting 15,000 expected participants. But the abrupt cancellations have brought pain to athletes in all sports.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. BOSTON — Taryn Snyder’s third graders were leaning over their desks, scratching out short essays on what they’d done over the weekend.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Left vulnerable when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Missouri Western is now cutting nearly a third of its faculty and at least 98 majors, minors and concentrations , including in English, history, chemistry, biology, philosophy, sociology, political science, computer technology, music and art.

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