ANTH 4500 - Work and Culture

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: ANTH 2020 with a C or better or consent of instructor.
Corequisites: None.
Pre/Corequisites: None.
Requirements: None.

Description
The purpose of this course is to lead students in the critical analysis of the role of work in the shaping of social identities, life narratives, and power dynamics in the contemporary world. Issues discussed in this course will include classed subjectivities in industrial and postindustrial societies; flexibility and neoliberal ideology; the global division of labor; work and the politics of gender, class, race, and age, and the narrative construction of professional lives.