Societal Contemporary Problems That Can Be a Subject for Anthropologist's Study

Cultural Anthropology
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Societal Contemporary Problems That Can Be a Subject for Anthropologist's Study
There have been various societal present problems that have hit the news headlines over the past few days. Most of them can be a subject for applied anthropologists. These include; domestic violence, climate change, rape, racism and sexual harassment at workplace. Domestic violence is still a major societal issue in the United States to date. The most affected are the indigenous American women. So many women die in the hands of their husbands with 85% of the violence negatively affecting women.
Climate change has been a topic of every day with efforts being reviewed from time to time. Attempts are made to reduce the accumulation of greenhouse gases so as to mitigate the effects of global warming that is becoming a threat to human life now and in future. Rape is also another social problem in the United States. Unfortunately, the superpower nation is leading in the cases of rape with 91% of the cases being reported targeted at women. There have been demonstrations in the streets by women and human rights activists calling for an end to the menace (Ferraro & Andreatta, 2011).
Racism has not been left behind. From day to day, cases of mistreatment for black are reported by the journalists. The United States comprises of different races including Asians, black and whites among others. Sexual harassment has also been trending with the latest case involving Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and the news anchor Megyn Kelly.
A Community Concern That Anthropologists Would Be Equipped To Study
An identified problem is the pollution in the cities and misguided garbage dumping. A medical anthropologist would be equipped to study this concern because pollution is a problem of public health which has the population as a patient and automatically forms the intervention of anthropologist (Ferraro & Andreatta, 2011). An anthropologist would study people in groups by applying ethnography in collecting data that would enable the public health to formulate policies for cur...