Social Anthropology is a discipline which tries to understand the cultural varieties of human societies interwoven with geographical, historical and economical facts. Social anthropological field work differs social anthropology from other social disciplines by its qualitative centered ethnographical method which requires staying in the examined field and community for a long time and forming one on one relations with the community members. Ethnographical method conducts the field work of living worlds and daily living practices of human societies within the field by techniques such as participant observation and in-depth interview.

The goal of the Social Anthropology PhD program is to provide academic and practical attainments for the students. Theoretical discussions of the field in historical context, obtaining theories and notions concerning basic sub-disciplines, preparation and application of an ethnographical field work can be counted within the academic acquisitions. In the practical sense, providing the competence of creating awareness about gender mainstreaming, potency, ethnicity, faith and class based social discrimination and inequality, evaluating the human varieties objectively, gaining the ability of generating solutions related to social problems by enhancing sensitivity about the matter are aimed.

Follows and keeps up to date with the field related developments, gains new ideas by being in contact with other fields, examines these ideas scientifically and critically, plays an active role in national and international studies, can lead team works, gains ability to direct his/her education, can share his/her ideas and knowledge with the society.

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