Sociocultural Wing

We commend these Sociocultural Wing graduate students for their recent academic achievements.

 

A designated emphasis is a specialization that can give participants access to a new method of inquiry or to an important field of application. Participation in a DE gives graduate students access to a broadened network of faculty members, which can prove helpful when they are composing their qualifying examination and dissertation committees.

 

Specialists in this subdiscipline study the ways in which various forms of media, including motion pictures, social media and other electronic forms of information dissemination influence individual and social behaviors.

 

The Society of Medical Anthropology describes this subfield as a discipline that draws upon social, cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology to better understand those factors which influence health and well being (broadly defined), the experience and distribution of illness, the prevention and treatment of sickness, healing processes, the social relations of therapy management, and the cultural importance and utilization of pluralistic medical systems.

 

Anthropology of religion is the study of religion in relation to other social institutions, and the comparison of religious beliefs and practices across cultures.

 

Economic anthropology is a field that attempts to explain human economic behavior in its widest historic, geographic and cultural scope.

 

Environmental anthropology is a sub-specialty within the field of anthropology that takes an active role in examining the relationships between humans and their environment across space and time.

 

The UC Davis Sociocultural Anthropology program requirements include successful completion of preliminary and qualifying examinations, a specified curriculum, periodic progress reviews, and a dissertation that earns faculty approval.

 

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Students who are accepted into the Department of Anthropology's Sociocultural Wing graduate program begin by fulfilling core and sub-discipline requirements constituting a master's degree curriculum.