Mar 18, 2026  
2020-2021 Graduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ANTH 6500 - Work and Culture


3 Hours
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.

Prerequisite(s): None.
Corequisite(s): None.
Pre/Corequisite(s): None.
Requirements: None.