Social anthropology
Social anthropology is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and Commonwealth and much of Europe where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology. In the USA, Social Anthropology is commonly subsumed within cultural anthropology. In contrast to cultural anthropology, culture and its continuity have been traditionally seen more as the dependent "variable" by social anthropology, embedded in its historical and social context, including its diversity of positions and perspectives, ambiguities, conflicts, and contradictions of social life, rather than the independent one. Topics of interest for social anthropologists have included customs, economic and political organization, law and conflict resolution, patterns of consumption and exchange, kinship and family structure, gender relations, childbearing and socialization, religion, while present-day social anthropologists are also concerned with issues of globalism, ethnic violence, gender...