Social Anthropology

About this course

Social anthropology is the comparative study of human societies and cultures. It is a discipline that asks how people organise their social lives, what gives meaning to their experience, and how cultural practices and beliefs that may seem strange from the outside make profound sense when understood from within. Anthropology is built on the method of ethnography, long-term immersive fieldwork in which you engage directly with a community or social setting, and this gives its practitioners a distinctive capacity for empathy, attentiveness, and cross-cultural understanding that is rare among social scientists. At the University of Edinburgh, one of the world's great research universities, this four-year full-time programme reflects the Scottish Honours tradition, offering a broader first two years before you specialise and deepen your knowledge in the final years. The programme includes a

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 61% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 15% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 6% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 20% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 18% of graduatescards →
• 45 / 100Media Professionals · 2% of graduatescards →

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