Social Anthropology and Social Policy

About this course

Social anthropology and social policy is a pairing that connects two disciplines with a shared concern for human welfare and social organisation, approaching it from complementary angles. Social anthropology studies human societies in their diversity, using ethnographic methods to understand how people in different cultural contexts organise their lives, construct meaning, and relate to one another. Social policy examines how modern states and other institutions respond to social problems, asking what welfare systems do, who they benefit, and how they might be improved. Together, they produce graduates who can both understand social difference and engage critically with the policy processes that shape people's lives. At the University of Edinburgh, this four-year programme develops your skills in both disciplines across a sustained period of study. In the social anthropology strand, you

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