Substantive focus and practice Social anthropology
specializations within social anthropology shift objects of study transformed , new intellectual paradigms appear; musicology , medical anthropology examples of current, well-defined specialities.
more recent , cognitive development; social , ethical understandings of novel technologies; emergent forms of family , other new socialities modelled on kinship; ongoing social fall-out of demise of state socialism; politics of resurgent religiosity; , analysis of audit cultures , accountability.
the subject has been enlivened by, , has contributed to, approaches other disciplines, such philosophy (ethics, phenomenology, logic), history of science, psychoanalysis, , linguistics.
ethical considerations
the subject has both ethical , reflexive dimensions. practitioners have developed awareness of sense in scholars create objects of study , ways in anthropologists may contribute processes of change in societies study. example of hawthorne effect , whereby being studied may alter behaviour in response knowledge being watched , studied.
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