WHAT ARE SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY ANYWAY?
In this video, you can hear the SoAn faculty give their perspective, along with a short overview of our department and major.
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Post-Doc Archaeologist Joins Department for 2022-23
Professor Mario Zimmerman joins the SoAn Department as the Lora Bryning Redford Post-Doctoral Fellow in Archeology for the 2022-23 academic year. He will be teaching SoAn 280 (Archaeological Foundations) in the fall, and SoAn 306 (The Archaeology of Climate Change) in the spring. His research focus is on Maya archaeology specializing in paleoethnobotany and chemical residue analyses. He writes, "I'm particularly interested in human-environment interactions, the impact and strategies of tropical agriculture, as well as the social aspects of food distribution. My dissertation focuses on staple crop diversity among the pre-Columbian Maya." Welcome, Professor Zimmerman!
Thinking about plans for after college, and how studying sociology and anthropology can inform different career trajectories? Watch our panel of Sociology and Anthropology department alumni speak to their diverse professional pursuits and the role that SoAn training played in paving their pathways into fields as diverse as marketing communications, social work, patient advocacy, and much more. From March 2, 2022.
SoAn Alumni Panelists:
- Rodger Caudill ’16, Acting TFT Communications Lead at Riot Games
- Lizzy Chao ’17, Clinical Social Worker at Veterans Affairs
- Tristan Eddy ’09, Program Director at Justice for Girls Coalition
- Andrea Little ’19, Patients’ Rights Advocate at Mental Health Association of Alameda County
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About Our Department
Anthropology and sociology help us understand cultural patterns, social processes, and human behavior. Anthropology challenges us to engage cultural difference and reflect on human variation across the globe, learning to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange. Sociology challenges us to connect individual and personal concerns to broader, collective issues by understanding complex norms and varied social structures. Join us in the critical study of human culture and society and build a greater understanding of the beliefs, constructs, and worldviews that shape diverse cultures and institutions.
Courses in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology examine a wide variety of fields and topics, including inequality, education, development, health and healthcare, media and technology, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, kinship and families, deviance, labor and work, and urban phenomena. A global approach allows students to investigate these topics not only in the U.S. but also in Europe, East, Southeast, and South Asia, Latin America, and the Arab world.
Our faculty take an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to studying the social world, emphasizing a range of theoretical perspectives and a toolkit of qualitative and quantitative methods that allow students to critically explore their own interests.
Students pursuing a degree in SoAn receive in-depth, experiential, and immersive exposure to many facets of human culture and society, while developing an array of social research skills that contribute to success in a broad range of careers.
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