Social Anthropology

About this course

Social anthropology is the comparative study of human societies and cultures, using extended fieldwork and ethnographic methods to understand how people in different parts of the world organise their social lives, produce and exchange goods, construct meaning, relate to the sacred, manage power, and navigate questions of identity and belonging. It is a discipline that insists on taking difference seriously, approaching other cultures not as exotic curiosities but as full and complex social worlds that can illuminate questions about human nature, social organisation, and the conditions under which different ways of living are possible. At the University of Manchester, this three-year full-time programme benefits from one of the UK's strongest social anthropology departments, with a faculty that covers a broad range of regional and thematic specialisms across Africa, Asia, Latin America,

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 75% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 62 / 100Secretarial and related occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 35% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Sales occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 32 / 100Artistic, literary and media occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 18 / 100Other Educational Professionals · 10% of graduatescards →

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