…observational and experimental methods of the natural sciences, the social sciences–including anthropology, economics, political science and government, sociology, and psychology–examine and predict behavioral and organizational processes. Together, they help us…
…she writes, “I threw myself into super-Indianness, taking both of the Native-studies courses offered by the university’s anthropology department. I participated in a summer internship program for Native students and…
…anthropology degrees, and a Florida task force recently suggested that humanities majors should pay higher tuition. But this is central planning, not innovation. The beauty of a higher education market…
…as is often the case, may find their employer paying them to complete a B.A. It is something the 17-year old who wants to study anthropology should keep in mind. …
My sorry academic discipline, anthropology, has been in the news the last few weeks. Napoleon Chagnon broke his long silence by publishing a memoir, Noble Savages, about his work among…
…5000 years of patriarchy. We can do better. Lionel Tiger is Darwin professor of anthropology emeritus at Rutgers University and author of The Decline of Males and The Pursuit of Pleasure….
…egg-eating vegetarians. Is Anthropology 101 Real? But I digress. Terrestia, my hypothetical research group, shouldn’t stop with freshman American history. There are lots of other subjects in the college…
…New subjects of enquiry — gender, race and ethnicity — have developed. Never have historians been so influenced by the methodology and contributions of other disciplines, from anthropology to sociology. …
…amount students pay to the costs and benefits of various degrees. For example, if we have underutilized anthropology professors, the cost of educating one additional anthropology major may be close…
…in Economics, more than 5-1 in Political Science, 10-1 or more in History and English, and well over 20-1 in Sociology and Anthropology. Exacerbating the imbalance, whereas Democratic faculty hold…
…him in their USPS mailboxes and bewilderingly confounded that there’ll be no more. Who can replace him? No one. —————- Lionel Tiger is Darwin Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Rutgers University….
…go on to graduate work in anthropology, economics, government, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public policy, or sociology.” At the University of California, Berkeley, students study “Social Inequalities, American Cultures.”…
…sociology, anthropology, psychology, or environmental studies–by guidance counselors and proselytizing professors. There’s the graduate of the University of Oregon “with degrees in international studies and sociology and a double minor…
…of Susan Greenhalgh, “the newest professor of anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences” at Harvard. The profiler, Katie Koch of the Harvard Gazette staff, says Greenhalgh “seized the…
The Chronicle of Higher Education had a cover story last week by Peter Schmidt on Angana P. Chatterji and Richard Shapiro, two anthropology professors at the California Institute of Integral Studies…
…from departments of women’s and “gender” studies and is adapted by psychology; social work; sociology; anthropology; literature; schools of education; and the seminaries. At the prestigious universities, most of these…
…will secure jobs. The way to do this, he says, is to stop training students to get degrees in subjects such as psychology and anthropology–especially anthropology, a subject I’ve taught…
…for Social Research, May 1996, and her B.A.(Highest Distinction) in Psychology, with minors in Anthropology and Women’s Studies, May 1990. Her research and teaching interests include media and popular culture,…
English professors have long been straying far afield from literary studies, expanding into women’s studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, even fat studies. Recently they have migrated into animal studies. An…
…universities as the University of Las Vegas at Nevada struggle with whether to retain some departments in the liberal arts, including philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and women’s studies. It is easy…
Some readers of Minding the Campus may have noticed the little fracas at University of Iowa between College Republicans and anthropology/women’s studies professor Ellen Lewin. You can read about it…
…comes along with limited insight into the many alternative ways that people create meaningful lives,” wrote Robert Rubinstein, a professor of anthropology and international relations, in a Feb. 24 letter….
…a host of academic disciplines, psychology being just one. Sociology, anthropology, and women’s studies have been found to be even more ideologically skewed than psychology. People outside the left-liberal hegemony…
…example of rampant stigmatism can be found in Disrespected?, a recent article by Penn anthropology professor John L. Jackson Jr., who apparently is the Chronicle of Higher Education‘s designated commentator…
…a woman who had apparently spent eight years acquiring a Ph.D. in anthropology, plus another seven years trying unsuccessfully to get an entry-level tenure-track professor’s job—a position whose average starting…
…also fixated on race. In an argument posted on an American Anthropology Association website, four Howard anthropologists assert that [t]he consequences of a closure … will also have a bearing…
…on science itself. Perhaps the inability to get to the bottom of this intricate, highly charged tribal controversy reveals the limits of anthropology as a discipline, whether scientific or cultural….
…idea that anthropology is a science. It also blurs the intellectual boundaries of the discipline and, ironically, inserts a stronger warrant for using anthropology to engage in public advocacy…. The…
…to fields like English, philosophy, or anthropology. Whether giving today’s students a brief window of access to a more pedagogically diverse academy that is rapidly passing us by is worth…
…really? A quick glance at the syllabi of the average Sociology or Anthropology department, not to mention Hispanic Studies, Peace Studies, or Community Studies, would suggest that leftist politico-economic perspectives…