anthropology

> No normal lender would give an 18 year old $50,000 to get a degree in anthropology, because they are unlikely to get it back.

No normal lender would give an 18 year old $50,000 to get a degree in anthropology, because they are unlikely to get it back.

MIT offers degrees in gender studies, anthropology, theater, etc.

Like learning about anthropology or philosophy, or having a life changing event, or taking up art, or doing shrooms?

Methods and concepts of anthropology and ethnography apply to groups of various sizes, not just to large societies.

I'm not sure why college students aren't told that a degree in anthropology/english/women's studies is not going to give you marketable skills, while a degree in nursing/engineering/computer science will.

If I recall correctly a lot of Delphi's DNA ended up in C++ builder, and then a lot of the C++ Builder guys ended up at Microsoft... so Delphi has earned its place in the anthropology of our business.

I'll try to explain my more ruminative thinking: Since the article actually specifies behavioral research, I think my background in anthropology and the social sciences might be helpful here.

Here is my take on deconstruction, based on an MA in anthropology from a good university and some further interest and reading:First of all, Deconstruction should be credited to Heidegger, not the French.

Not entirely wrong, but some criticisms:- overconfidence: scientists are much better at saying "this is a hypothesis we are testing", "we are 80% confident" or "not all of my colleagues agree with this thesis" than science journalists are at reporting those things.- is anthropology a science now?

When people talk about "postmodernism", they're often talking about "post-structuralism", which is another hopelessly broad category referring to theory that in some way extends "structuralism", which is in turn closely connected to the theories of Claude Lvi-Strauss, the "father of modern anthropology".

I never get tired of quoting Mike Konczal:And speaking as someone who has taken graduate coursework in continental philosophy, and been walked through the big hits of structural anthropology, Hegelian marxism and Freudian feminism, that graduate macroeconomics class was by far the most ideologically indoctrinating class Ive ever seen.