Sociology, Anthropology, and Justice Studies
Our faculty take an inter-related and collaborative approach to studying the social world. Sociology is largely concerned with the study of human social behavior and its causes and consequences. Our sociologists are particularly interested in better understanding issues related to social, global and environmental justice. Thus, areas of faculty research and teaching include deviance and social control, environment and society, gender studies, globalization, political economy, power and social stratification, race and ethnicity, and social movements. Anthropology is concerned with the study of humanity as a part of the natural world, and of cultures that developed to cope with that world. Anthropology faculty at the U of I have diverse interests, although a major focus of the program is on the cultural and archaeological history of the Inland Northwest Plateau. Faculty research and teaching areas include prehistoric and historical archaeology, social and physical anthropology, American Indians, Indians of Idaho, indigenous people of South America, human and primate evolution, human races, and cultural ecology. Justice Studies seeks to understand the legal and justice systems within a society. Our Justice Studies faculty address issues confronting the entire justice system, from the nature of crime to society's varied responses to it. Areas of faculty research and teaching include policing, inequalities in the justice system, violence and victimology, and international criminology and criminal justice. The department houses the Asian American Comparative Collection and Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology. In addition, we offer a minor in American Indian Studies and an Academic Certificate in Diversity and Stratification.
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University of Idaho's Department of Sociology, Anthropology
and Justice Studies offer the following degrees: