College of Behavioral and Social Sciences News

Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology Student Presents at Social Sciences Conferenc

College of Behavioral and Social Sciences News

Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology Student Presents at Social Sciences Conferenc

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, September 14, 2012

The Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology (SSWA) department in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences proposes a minor in Criminal Justice (CJ)

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, March 30, 2018 - Minor in Social Work

Utah State University\u27s Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences requests a Minor in Social Work

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, March 30, 2018 - Interfaith Leadership Certificate

Utah State University\u27s Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences requests an Interfaith Leadership Certificate

Finding the Correct Language: Defining Fragmented Ethnic Identity in the Second Generation Iranian Americans

This research adds depth to current scholarship on second generation immigrant integration within American context and how children of immigrants continue to be ostracized through intergroup and outer group relations. Additionally, this paper brings another immigrant group into the conversation by incorporating concepts and methodologies from the social sciences (psychology, sociology, ethnic studies, and linguistic anthropology), serving as a reminder that language loss is prominent within all immigrant groups.

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, January 11, 2019 – I-System Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies

The President and Provost recommend that the Board of Trustees approve the proposal to establish the I-System Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology

<Originals> A View of Healthscience --Based on the investigation of the current situation in Germany--

We examined the current situation of studies on health in Germany, especially medical anthropology by v. Weizsacker and v. Gebsattel, medical sociology, social medicine and general medicine in the faculties of medicine of German universities and the new tendency of physical medicine and rehabilitation. We speculated on the structure of healthscience based on the results obtained. Health should be researched not only by medicine as natural science, but also by human and social sciences like philosophy, sociology, psychology and cultural anthropology. We must then place great emphasis on rehabilitation and nursing in the field of practical medicine because these have always a direct relation to "totum humanum", the whole individual

How Politically Diverse Are the Social Sciences and Humanities? Survey Evidence from Six Fields

In Spring 2003, a large-scale survey of American academics was conducted using academic association membership lists from six fields: Anthropology, Economics, History, Philosophy (political and legal), Political Science, and Sociology. This paper focuses on one question: To which political party have the candidates you’ve voted for in the past ten years mostly belonged? The question was answered by 96.4 percent of academic respondents. The results show that the faculty is heavily skewed towards voting Democratic. The most lopsided fields surveyed are Anthropology with a D to R ratio of 30.2 to 1, and Sociology with 28.0 to 1. The least lopsided is Economics with 3.0 to 1. After Economics, the least lopsided is Political Science with 6.7 to 1. The average of the six ratios by field is about 15 to 1. Our analysis and related research suggest that for the the social sciences and humanities overall, a “one-big-pool” ratio of 7 to 1 is a safe lower-bound estimate, and 8 to 1 or 9 to 1 are reasonable point estimates. Thus, the social sciences and humanities are dominated by Democrats. There is little ideological diversity. We discuss Stephen Balch’s “property rights” proposal to help remedy the situation.academia; diversity; Democratic; Republican; voting; political parties

3. Darwinism and the Rise of Social Science

The two areas of the social sciences which were more stimulated by Darwin\u27s research were anthropology and sociology. The Frenchman, Auguste Comte (1798-1857), generally regarded as the father of sociology and the originator of that term, laid the groundwork for the immediate application of the law of evolution to the study of society. Comte\u27s conception of sociology is derived from his philosophy of history. Sharing the Enlightenment belief in progress, Comte saw history evolving through three stages. The first was the theological stage, in which men supplied supernatural explanations for the natural and social phenomena. This was followed bu what Comte called the metaphysical stage, a period when men were immersed in speculation. The nineteenth century, he contended, was witnessing the dawn of the third, or positivist, stage of human history. Man was searching for, and would find, scientific law to explain social phenomena. Comte was convinced that through the discovery of these laws man would be able to control his destiny. After the publication of the Origin of Species, many thinkers were persuaded that the principal law had been discovered. [excerpt