Social Science

In 2009, The U.S. Department of Labor held a series of 28 so called “listening sessions”. The goal was to find out why not only are women veterans twice as likely as civilian women to become homeless, but why there…
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Darwin used his now famous/infamous quote: “Natural Selection” in a the 19th century to imply the opposite of what men and cattle ranchers did in his time; people would chose male/female animals in the best physical stamina and then mate them…
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The Anasazi were a native people that lived in an area bordered by Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado.  Although their territory corresponds to that occupied by the current Navajo Nation the Navajo and Anasazi never met. By the time…
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In what have been somewhat unorthodox and rather telling moves, the link between anthropology and politics has been monetarily quantified to be worth either $400,000 in annual salary or $40 million, depending on whether you ask the CIA or the…
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Cultural or social anthropology is when the social groups and behavior patterns are studied. The studies include the relationships of families, the law, politics, ideology, religious beliefs and the way that things are produced and the way that people consume…
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The subject of anthropology and religion may go hand in hand in some science circles, but when approaching religion from a prospectus of science, some are likely to take a personal stance. If anthropology is the study of humanity and…
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The Anthropologist Margaret Meade, like her mother, Emily Fogg Meade, enjoyed watching people.  Studying them, their way of life and their culture.  Emily Fogg Meade was a sociologist who “studied” Italian immigrants.  So, Margaret grew up with a rather scientific…
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Introduction to Political Economy: Modes of Production Introduction: “Political economy could…be distinguished from neoclassical economics, which represented a shift in concern from the wealth of nations’ to the price of beans, from value as determined by labor time to price…
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A virtual view from Google Earth software one can definitively visualize what many satellite imagery and thermal images portray as aerial archaeology at a global prospectus. Aerial views of the earth from a higher advantage gives us various airborne images that…
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The early archaeological history of Wisconsin can be traced back to the Indians who populated the state for many thousands of years before the advent of Western civilization. The earliest archaeological artifacts of Wisconsin Indians date back to the Archaic…
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