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Social Anthropology and World Philosophies

BA · School of Oriental and African Studies · 3 years

Social Anthropology and World Philosophies

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School of Oriental and African Studies

AI IMPACT
MEDIAN PAY, 15 MO£30,000
SATISFACTION84%
CONTINUATION80%
PROFESSIONAL JOBS75%
DESTINATION-WEIGHTEDAI is already used for about 42% of the work its graduates go into (High).

About this course

Social anthropology and world philosophies is a combination that explores human culture, society, and thought with a genuinely global scope. Social anthropology investigates how people across cultures and historical periods have organised their lives, built their communities, and made sense of the world, using fieldwork and comparative analysis to challenge the assumptions we bring to understanding human difference. World philosophies extends this into the realm of ideas, engaging seriously with philosophical traditions from Asia, Africa, and the Americas alongside the European tradition, resisting the narrowness of a curriculum that treats Western thought as the only philosophy worth studying. At the School of Oriental and African Studies this three-year, full-time programme includes an optional foundation year. SOAS is the ideal environment for this combination, given its founding com

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