Social Anthropology and Economics

About this course

Social anthropology and economics is a combination that produces graduates who can understand human behaviour from two fundamentally different but complementary perspectives. Social anthropology examines how different cultures organise social life, construct meaning, manage resources and understand the world, typically through intensive fieldwork and ethnographic methods that prioritise close attention to how people actually live. Economics provides formal models of how agents make decisions under constraint, how markets allocate resources and how incentives shape behaviour at the level of individuals, firms and governments. The tension and dialogue between these approaches is intellectually productive and practically relevant. At SOAS, which is the UK's leading institution for the study of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, this three-year full-time programme includes a foundation year,

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 45% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

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• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 10% of graduatescards →
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• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 15% of graduatescards →

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