jobs for anthropologists. transferrable skills those skills developed in the classroom and in...
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Jobs for anthropologists
Transferrable skills
• Those skills developed in the classroom and in assignments that can be usefully applied in other domains
What do they include
• There are basic elements of social science training that everyone should have after a degree
• Are relevant to what non-anthropologists SHOULD think we are doing
For example…
• Gathering information (sometimes a lot of it)• Assessing the quality of information• Being able to summarize and explain that
information• Communicating findings verbally
or in writing
Social science transferrable skills?
• Observation, reflection, questioning and making inferences
• Recognizing social and cultural impacts on thought and action
• What hasn’t been explored or what questions haven’t been asked
Which means…
• … social scientists know that empirical research with broad assessment of context yields results that can offer explanatory models for why people think and act the way they do
• Medical anthropology/bioanthropology can also contribute understandings based on body/biology
Continued…
• … with good information and analysis, we can suggest beneficial changes
• Ethical practice means consideration of other’s rights