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	Social Anthropology - ninemsn Encarta
		Social and cultural anthropology differ from other social sciences in being highly comparative, taking all human societies and cultures, past and present, for their study.
		Social anthropology came to focus on the study of non-European, usually small-scale, societies, and it became particularly the study of “other” societies (which were initially termed “primitive”) with forms of organization differing from industrial, Western societies.
		Radcliffe-Brown introduced social anthropology as a form of functionalism (whereby activities and beliefs are examined in terms of the contribution the analyst believes they make to the needs of the society or group), with emphasis on structures, the patterns of relationships that constitute organized groups.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_781534959/Social_Anthropology.html (1746 words)

	ASAA/NZ Code of Ethics, Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/NewZealand
		However, anthropologists should not be present themselves as spokespersons for people who have not given them their consent to act in such a capacity, and they should advocate the right of research participants to be heard directly in contexts where their lives may be affected.
		Anthropologists should inform students of what is expected from them in their course of study; be fair in the evaluation of their performance; and communicate evaluations to the students concerned.
		Anthropologists should acknowledge in print the student assistance used in their own publications; give appropriate credit (including coauthorship) when student research is used in publication; encourage and assist in publication of worthy student papers; and compensate students justly for the use of their time, energy, and intelligence in research and teaching.
	asaanz.rsnz.org /codeofethics.html (2091 words)

	Cultural anthropology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 20th century most socio-cultural anthropologists turned to the study of ethnography, in which an anthropologist actually lives among another society for a considerable period of time, simultaneously participating in and observing the social and cultural life of the group.
		European "social anthropologists" focused on observed social behaviors and on "social structure", that is, on relationships among social roles (e.g.
		These anthropologists continue to concern themselves with the distinct ways people in different locales experience and understand their lives, but they often argue that one cannot understand these particular ways of life solely in the local context; one must analyze them (they say) in the context of regional or even global political and economic relations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cultural_anthropology (1388 words)

	Social scientists, other
		Anthropologists and archaeologists will experience average growth, but slower-than-average employment growth is expected for geographers, historians, political scientists, and sociologists because they enjoy fewer opportunities outside of government and academic settings.
		Sociologists are concerned with the characteristics of social groups, organizations, and institutions; the ways individuals are affected by each other and by the groups to which they belong; and the effect of social traits such as gender, age, or race on a person’s daily life.
		Many social scientists conduct surveys, study social problems, teach, and work in museums, performing tasks similar to those of statisticians; counselors; social workers; teachers—postsecondary; teachers—preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, and secondary; and archivists, curators, and museum technicians.
	www.bls.gov /oco/ocos054.htm (2568 words)

	revised ethics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Social anthropologists carry out their professional research in many places around the world; some where they are 'at home' and others where they are in some way 'foreign'.
		Anthropologists, like other social researchers, are faced increasingly with competing duties, obligations and conflicts of interest, with the need to make implicit or explicit choices between values and between the interests of different individuals and groups.
		Anthropologists are most likely to avoid restrictions being placed on their work when they are able to stipulate in advance the issues over which they should maintain control; the greatest problems seem to emerge when such issues remain unresolved until the data are collected or the findings emerge.
	www.asa.anthropology.ac.uk /ethics2.html (3200 words)

	Social Anthropological Theories of Ritual Meaning and Function
		Beginning with a reference section, this bibliography includes seminal works by social anthropologists, a contemporary theoretical section, as well as sections on works in the two main "non-religious" areas of ritual: the rites of passage and ritual ceremonies.
		Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957) was the first anthropologist to note the regularity and significance of the rituals attached to the transitional stages in the life of humans, and his phrase for these, "the rites of passage," has become a part of the language of anthropology and sociology.
		One of the first female social anthropologists working in Africa, she was a prolific writer of articles on ritual.
	www.swcp.com /~ldraper/slim/biblios/morris.html (6518 words)

	Social Anthropology degree courses - Undergraduate 2007 - University of Kent
		Social Anthropology is the study of people and the way they live all over the world, in different countries, places, and communities.
		Social anthropologists are interested in what people wear, what they eat, how they work, how they celebrate, how they worship, what they believe, what they buy, how they work together, how they marry or love.
		Social anthropologists look mostly at small communities, but we are also interested in the systems and processes that link such communities together, such as capitalism, globalisation, migration, and world politics.
	www.kent.ac.uk /studying/undergrad/subjects/social-anth.html (517 words)

	Massey University
		Social (or cultural) anthropologists seek to understand and communicate cultural difference and the many ways people maintain and change culture in response to new political and economic contexts.
		Students of social anthropology gain a deeper understanding of cultural variation and cultural change and are better able to understand their own culture as one among many possible ways of being human.
		In comparison to other social science subjects social anthropology addresses the broadest possible range of social diversity - social anthropologists study a huge diversity of peoples, close at “home” (wherever that may be) and on the other side of the world.
	anthropology.massey.ac.nz (192 words)

	Anthropology at Harvard University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Social Anthropologists explore the social and cultural diversity of human experience, practice, and knowledge.
		Social anthropology is a wonderful entry point into intellectual history and modern philosophical and political movements.
		Social anthropology students learn skills that enable them to operate in different cultural environments, skills that can be transferred to careers in fields such as education, journalism, law, business, medicine, or development.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~anthro/social.html (197 words)

	Cultural and Social Anthropology in Central and Eastern Europe (Knowledge Base Social Sciences in Eastern Europe)
		Social and cultural anthropology was lectured within ethnography and ethnology curricula in many countries for a long time or in special courses in the 1970s and ’80s (Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania), and anthropological texts were also translated.
		By studying human behavior in its social and cultural diversity, their aim is to discover the unity of mankind or at least the principles that explain social and cultural diversity.
		The cultural anthropologists conduct a "slash-and-burn" type of mobile cultivation of the cultural field, while national ethnographies "...may be compared to granaries where generations of ethnographers, one after the other, hoard and preserve their knowledge" (Hofer, 1969: 313).
	www.cee-socialscience.net /archive/anthropology/article1.html (4963 words)

	Teaching Social Anthropology — The Memory Bank 2.1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For these anthropologists were set on establishing their discipline as a social science capable of meeting the needs of a national bureaucracy of which the universities were now such an integral part.
		The social sciences, branches of applied impersonal knowledge formed at the turn of the last century on a loose analogy with the natural sciences, arose to meet the needs of middle classes released from commerce to staff the national bureaucracies erected by state capitalism.
		Anthropologists who once could rely on public ignorance as support for their exotic tales must now cope with mass travel; and, as Russell shows, they are organising tours of their own.
	www.thememorybank.co.uk /publications/teaching (3220 words)

	Social Scientists
		Many social science graduates, however, will find good employment opportunities in areas outside social science, often in jobs that are related to social science where their research, communication, and quantitative skills can be put to good use.
		The largest social science occupation, psychologists, is expected to grow more slowly than the average, although some growth is expected due to public concern for the development of human resources, including the growing elderly population and children in school.
		The average salary of social scientists working for the Federal Government was $48,190 in early 1997; in geography was $47,850; in history was $55,750; in sociology was $64,720; and in archeology was $43,450.
	www.umsl.edu /services/govdocs/ooh9899/43.htm (2407 words)

	Department of Social Anthropology - University of Cape Town
		In the past Social Anthropology was chiefly concerned with bringing this diversity to light through "ethnography" - the study and description of small-scale, non-literate, materially simple communities; with peoples as different as possible from "us", the Western anthropologists and their audiences.
		Anthropologists no longer study cultures as if they are fixed and unchanging ways of being: no culture, no matter how isolated, is absolutely isolated.
		Social Anthropology confronts the challenge of culture in a diverse contemporary social world, seeking ways to understand the different perspectives, values and experiences of people and communities of divergent backgrounds.
	web.uct.ac.za /depts/socialanth/sa.htm (564 words)

	Social Scientists, Other
		Social scientists study all aspects of society—from past events and achievements to human behavior and relationships between groups.
		They are concerned with the characteristics of social groups, organizations, and institutions; the ways individuals are affected by each other and by the groups to which they belong; and the effect of social traits such as sex, age, or race on a person’s daily life.
		Overall employment of social scientists is expected to grow about as fast as the average for all occupations through 2010.
	www.umsl.edu /services/govdocs/ooh20022003/ocos054.htm (1973 words)

	Social Anthropology - About Us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Social Anthropology currently has a complement of 17 research-active academic members of staff and 4 post-doctoral researchers, supported by 4 administrative staff and one audio-visual technician.
		Social Anthropology continues to play a leading role in sustaining the profile of social anthropology at both a national and international level.
		A recent example was the hosting of the fiftieth annual conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists, the first time that a decennial conference of the ASA has been held outside Oxford and Cambridge.
	www.socialsciences.man.ac.uk /socialanthropology/aboutus (612 words)

	Franklin & Marshall - Anthropology
		Although it is true that many anthropologists spend much of their time studying and writing about the "small picture" -- a remote village, a single archaeological site, a particular myth -- it is also true that the discipline is concerned with the biggest, most general, picture.
		All anthropologists, no matter what their theoretical persuasions or topical specializations, adhere to the holistic ethic that views all aspects of human thought and action as interrelated.
		Social anthropologists study the full range of human societies, cultures, beliefs, and institutions.
	www.fandm.edu /anthropology.xml (416 words)

	Social Anthropology
		Social anthropologists study human societies in all their diversity and complexity, from the smallest hunter-gatherer groups to mass western social systems.
		Social anthropologists work in many different fields reflected in subjects as varied as urban life in cities; as diverse as Calcutta and east London; kingship and rituals in Rajasthan, India; fox hunting in Shropshire; and bullfighting in Spain.
		A degree in social anthropology from Roehampton, combined with your other subject, will provide you with a range of specific and transferable skills, including the ability to understand other people and different cultures, to carry out independent research, an understanding of society and social institutions, and confidence in using computers.
	www.roehampton.ac.uk /ug/sa (607 words)

	IS 531: Social Science Information: Anthropology lecture notes Notes
		Anthropologists were concerned with the origin and the physical, social, and cultural development and behavior of humans as they evolved.
		Social structure (personal relationships and status in groups), especially kinship and marriage networks, but also family structures and property rights are integral parts of "culture." Of interest to political scientists (political anthropology) is the role of power relationships within the culture.
		With the closure of some third world countries to anthropologists from the developed countries, and the rapid spread of 20th Century ideas and artifacts, anthropologists began to use their skill and experience to study urban environments of all sorts, including those of business and industry.
	web.utk.edu /~wrobinso/531_lec_anthro.html (6307 words)

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		It is interdisciplinary, joining theoretical and empirical concerns of economists, political scientists, sociologists, social anthropologists and social psychologists.
		Social capital involves participation in networks, reciprocity, trust, social norms, a sense of the “commons”, co-operation and being proactive.
		This includes the total number of social network ties in all of the areas of assistance reported by the respondent and the extent to which the respondent is involved in community activities.
	www.lycos.com /info/social-capital--networks.html?page=2 (523 words)

	Anthropology Ph.D. - Subdisciplines
		Most of the cultural and social anthropologists are contributing research and public service that is directly relevant to the needs of our local communities, the State of Maryland, the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, and national organizations.
		The research methods employed by the department’s cultural and social anthropologists include the traditional inductive ethnographic methods of participant observation and interviewing, life and oral histories, analyses of discourse and text, visual anthropology, and quantitative methods.
		As a medium for thought, a vehicle for cultural transmission, and a means of social action, linguistic anthropology –; the study of language in the context of human social and cultural diversity – is central to the discipline of anthropology as a whole.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /ANTH/Graduate/GrdPhD_SubD.html (997 words)

	Anthropology
		Social and cultural anthropologists investigate the specific and universal aspects of societies and cultures of people living around the world.
		Social anthropologists want to know what these cultural differences are, why they occur and what they mean.
		Social and cultural anthropologists seek a rich and intimate understanding of specific cultures through ethnographic research, that is, by living with and sharing the lives of the people they study.
	www.stfx.ca /academic/anthropology/social.html (523 words)

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		Three departments of the Faculty of Social Science contribute to this course: the Department of History, the Department of Social Anthropology and the Department of Political Science.
		A recent example was the Department’s hosting of the fiftieth annual conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists, the first time that a decennial conference of the ASA has been held outside Oxford and Cambridge.
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