Social Science

Are women and men different? Numerous books have explored the issue in the past. One of the most popular books was John Gray’s “Men Are From Mars and Women Are From Venus” and it addressed the different ways that men…
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Date line August 25th, 2009, a feature article on CNN reads: “U.S. students fall behind international counterparts in math and science ..” The article goes on to say that in math U.S. students placed in the bottom quarter of the…
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Everything that is accepted as fact regarding the first humans in North America is upon further evaluation, just theory. The explanations are full of “probably,” “likely,” “accepted,” and other terms that translate into a simple “we’re not sure.” Academics lap…
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We were created equal. Take a flight with me to Papua-New Guinea in1963 on an old DC-3 twin prop airplane. As you wing into Milne Bay and see the rusted hulks of the landing barges amidst the shoreline of palm…
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     In order to begin any discussion on cultural competence, one must look backwards and analyze the behaviors of previous generations. While working to best understand why people act a certain way in the present, it is necessary to…
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Terrific Teeth: Dental Evidence for the Peopling of the Americas Origins The existence of the Americas and the question concerning the origins of the native inhabitants remains a fervently debated subject in American archaeology. Since the discovery of the Americas…
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The Yanomami live thousands of miles away from us and are a part of a completely different cultural society. They don’t live in a society like ours in which there has been such a rapid development in technology and constant…
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In the early 20th century, psychology as a science changed dramatically.  Until that time, the main focus was on the conscious and unconscious mind, but a new school of thought arose, with its focus entirely on observable behavior.  Behaviorism made…
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Tracing the origins of man is a favorite activity among anthropologists and archaeologists. Although they have now found hundreds of fossils of our ancestors, they still argue over where the original home of the first hominids was actually located. Originally,…
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Intellectual was first used as an adjective in the 14th century to mean basically mental pursuits. Now it has become a noun referring to a person “a: given to study, reflection, and speculation b: engaged in activity requiring the creative…
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