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Social Anthropology: Research
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Located within the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA), this course has strong links with anthropology but is interdisciplinary in character. Candidates with a good degree in any of the relevant humanities or social sciences may apply. Coverage includes aspects of historical and contemporary migration; political and economic issues related to migration; global connections and transnational networks. Four papers assessed both by coursework essays and by written examinations in June of the first year form a qualifying examination. The first of these papers is on fundamental concepts in social and cultural anthropology, shared with the ISCA degrees above; one is on methods of anthropological and social research, and two are on aspects of migration studies. In the second year the course is examined by means of coursework essays on advanced themes and issues in Migration Research, an option paper.
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Social Anthropology is an international journal that serves the needs of all scholars with an interest in social anthropology. Not only does it publish some of the best scholarship available, but it acts as a forum for debate about key issues and concepts in the field, challenging and re-examining the boundaries of the discipline. As well as original research articles, the journal includes critical notes and a substantial book review section.
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Anthropology (RSPAS), a world leader in the social anthropology of Asia and the Pacific, has a distinguished program of research, publication and postgraduate training. On-going research interests of academic staff and postgraduate scholars are focused on mainland and island Southeast Asia, East Asia, Southwest Pacific and immigrant Australia.
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Anthropology is a Wikia about Social Anthropology, and aims to be of use not only for scholars and students, but ... the people around the world who allow anthropologists to study the way they live their lives. The wiki represents an attempt to enable the wide range of people involved in anthropological research at all levels to participate directly in anthropological discussions.
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The underlying objective of teaching social and cultural anthropology is to develop in students, an ability to examine and understand social life on a micro and global level. This is achieved by utilising a perspective that is both comparative and grounded in social science and one that can ensure that the researcher extends beyond previous experience. Teaching in social and cultural anthropology emphasises the field's research traditions. By retaining these traditions, contemporary anthropology can address the central questions concerning culture and society posed by researchers today. Teaching in social and cultural anthropology ... aims to provide students with a command of the methodology of sociological research. These methods are beneficial to the researcher, and in many fields of working life.
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Except for cultural anthropology, sociology is the discipline closest to social anthropology. Both are concerned with the study of social relationships and beliefs. The traditional differences between them are in subject matter and research methodologies. Sociology is concerned particularly with “modern” societies (a type of society associated with capitalism, industrialization, individualism, and the modern state); and much sociological research is carried out by large-scale quantitative techniques. The differences were never absolute, and the division is now even more blurred, with interactionist and phenomenological approaches in sociology, and particularly with the development of anthropological studies in modern societies.
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