Anthropology has become relevant for addressing global
issues. This is not to deny the vital role of ‘hard’ sciences in
addressing these problems. However, if we are to solve global
problems we need a new way of thinking based in humanities and
social sciences. It is impossible to resolve global issues merely
by looking at numbers and statistics. Anthropology thus becomes
crucial, as a discipline and a profession enabling the collection
and interpretation of ‘thick data’ ― in addition to ‘big data’ ― and
helps us to understand the world we live in more
comprehensively. Why is a brand new and expensive ‘smart’
building a disaster? What will happen in the future with
passenger cars? In answering such questions, we should stop
relying only on quantitative data analytics; instead, the most
important decisions should also be informed by anthropological
qualitative approaches which provide a more complete and
nuanced picture of people’s lives.
글로벌 문제 해결을 위해 인류학의 질적 접근법을 활용해야 한다.
지문 출처: https://www.google.co.kr/books/edition/Why_the_World_Needs_Anthropologists/90QHEAAAQBAJ?hl=ko&gbpv=1
Why the World Needs Anthropologists
Dan Podjed is Research Fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Assistant Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Meta Gorup is PhD Candidate at Ghent University, Belgium. Pavel Borecký is PhD Candidate
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