Sociocultural Anthropology
Sociocultural anthropology explores the diversity of human societies and cultures, particularly peoples of the recent past and the present. Social anthropology includes topics dealing with social, political and economic anthropology, such as how families or villages are organized, while cultural anthropology focusses on the understandings, beliefs and practices of different groups of people.
Culture affects how we give meaning to things in our lives, and shapes our ways of life. Studies of gender, art or religion within and between societies are some of the kinds of things that cultural anthropologists may study. Sociocultural anthropology also includes the study of how different societies live in their environments, or ecological anthropology. Although we can analytically separate social organization from beliefs and practices, in reality most anthropological studies of modern peoples use both perspectives. In Britain, this area of study is usually called social anthropology, and in the United States cultural anthropology. We offer a diverse array of courses in sociocultural anthropology at Athabasca University, which are listed below.
Courses
- ANTH 275 Faces of Culture
- ANTH 307 Inuit Way
- ANTH 362 First Nations of Canada
- ANTH 375 Anthropology of Gender
- ANTH 394 Urban Anthropology
- ANTH 401 Ethnography: Principles in Practice
- ANTH 434 The History of Anthropological Thought (New)
- ANTH 491 Ethnobiology
- ANTH 499 Medical Anthropology
- SOAN 384 The Family in World Perspective
- SOSC 378 Human Sexualities
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