ANTHRO 3335 - Anthropology and Social Policy

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Temple University

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Description:

This course explores the critical anthropology of social policy, an emerging new field. First, we will compare this kind of anthropology to closely related “applied anthropology” and “activist anthropology.” The critical approach examines the disjunctures between the cultural constructions of policy targets created by experts (and the public) and the actual lived experiences of the targets themselves. Along with other critiques of the bureaucratic structures of national and international “helping” institutions and their assumptions of technocratic professionalization, we will explore the hidden aspects of power and control which lurk within the massive structures of policymaking and implementation in the past six decades. Mode: Seminar.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.TEMPLE.EDU

Phone Number:

(215) 204-7000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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