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Anthropology, Sociology & Culture: Forum Charter - Please Read

  • 11-12-2009 1:08am
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    Welcome to the Anthropology, Sociology & Culture forum! Below you'll find our rules and what exactly this forum is for.


    • First, the Golden Rule of Boards.ie:
    There is no free speech! As you should know, this is a privately run and owned website, this means that you, the poster, do not have the right to freedom of speech. If you post something which the moderators deem inappropriate, they have the right to remove it and issue whatever punishment that they see fit (within the guidelines of the charter).

    You have the right to object to the moderator's decision, of course. You make your case for this objection via PM first with the moderator(s) in question. If that fails, you raise the issue with one of the local Science CMods. Finally, if that fails you, you then use the Dispute Resolution Forum.


    • What is this forum for/about?
    The proposal for this forum.

    Anthropology is the study of the origins of and the social relationships between human beings. It's the study of human ancestry through both time and space; the study of physical character, environmental and social relations, and culture.

    Sociology, at its most fundamental, is the study of collective behaviour. It is a diverse discipline that draws upon a range of theories and methods to explore both broad patterns of human behaviour, and individual life experiences. Sociologists’ interests range from the economy (theories of money, industrialization, forms of economic organization, labour markets), gender (performed identity, sexuality, inequality), to crime (theories of criminal behaviour, social organization of prisons, cultures of deviance). These and many other areas are investigated with a special emphasis on the connections between individuals, and broader social structures. Sociology is typically distinguished from Social and Cultural Anthropology via the latter’s early emphasis upon field research methods (ethnographers such as Malinowski, Mead, Levi-Strauss), despite the fact that cultural studies is now a prominent specialty across both disciplines.

    Given the range of areas sociology addresses, debates are welcome on any topic, provided they proceed within the broad outlines as stated above (theoretical discussions welcome provided they address themselves to social problems/phenomena - there is a philosophy forum for discussing the 'fundamentals').

    Culture, is just that. In the context of this forum, it isn't about the latest fashion in Milan, but it's about language, religion, customs, the development of knowledge and cultural morality etc.

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