Social Science

The disengagement theory of aging is a controversial psychological model which explains why withdrawal from society is natural and inevitable as a person grows older. It was developed by Elaine Cumming and William Earl Henry in the 1961 book “Growing…
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The Chicago School of criminological theory aimed to move past the simple hard-line classical explanations of crime. Early theories of criminal behavior focused on the individual, touting such ideas as crime as a rational choice, born criminals, and physical features…
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The Correspondent Inference Theory  is a psychological model which is used to explain how people infer the disposition of another person based on that person’s actions, regardless of what the action achieved or any situational factors. Thus, it is an…
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Medical anthropologists use the tools, techniques, and theories of anthropology to study medical systems. Since every culture on earth has some way of treating the sick, medical anthropology has something to tell us about health and healing everywhere. Thinking traditionally,…
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Graham Hancock started out as a journalist and author, writing for main line British newspapers like The London Times and the Economist through the 1980’s.  In 1989, he published “The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the…
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Forensic anthropology is a subfield of physical anthropology and is used by law enforcement agencies for identification of remains or in identification of traumatic injuries or disease where the identification is known. More often, the forensic anthropologist works with skeletal…
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Psychology has been around in some form for thousands of years. It seems as though humans have always had a need to understand how their minds work and why. There are many schools of thought in the field of psychology…
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Appropriate Cultural Scale Theory: An Introduction Cultural scale theory is a theoretical orientation in the social sciences, which has especially been popularized by cultural anthropologists. In essence, scale theory focuses upon just that-the scale at which social, economic and political…
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Physical anthropology explores the relationships between the body and culture. Sound like a broad topic? You bet, and physical anthropologists explore it all. Best known today perhaps are the forensic anthropologists. These researchers understand the human skeleton as a living…
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On the fast-eroding Norfolk coastline, “a million to one” set of circumstances has uncovered the oldest set of human footprints ever seen outside Africa. According to scientists from several leading British universities, the rare prints – possibly of a family…
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