Yes it is an interesting area of study, mine differs slightly to social work as I studied things like gender, deviance etc in all cultures etc..I also studied from all social perspectives/approaches, sociological, psychological, anthropology and philosophical, of course they are all interlinked any-way, they just offer different ways to view.

Yes I went to Hull....

what on earth is this all about its got nothing to do with rugby get a life ok

Oh right, excellent, sounds really good. Was it 3 years full-time? Not really looked at anthropology or philosophical before, but psychology looks really interesting.

Been doing bit of studying there last couple days whilst work's been quiet, absolutely amazing place isn't it, wish could turn the clock back a lot of years.

A lot of companies employ anthropologists to study the work place, the founding father of anthropology was Bronislaw Malinowski, he basically studied tribes as an anthropologist you are supposed to watch and record every detail basically without applying your own norms & values (easier said than done), another one was Mead she did some studies some very controversial one's, and all the literature is used as an insight to that particular culture etc...modern anthropology maybe used to improve working conditions etc an anthropologists goes in and records every-thing etc, they consider all the variables then have the solutions, in theory Philosophy is great, every-one is a philosopher
Yes Hull is a very tranquil environment, I used to sit an watch all the squirrels running about in the gardens

My dog loves peanut butter as a treat in his kong...............

Oh right, thanks BB, will have a nosey at a couple books on each next time am in there. Have done bits of counselling too which really enjoy and find interesting, + I figured bits I do like at the moment (have signed up for NLP, communication skills, and forensic psychology), will hopefully be useful for any ongoing work with people that I do (NLP is fascinating looking at patterns of behaviour and communication).

Lol, yeah I often find myself gazing at the landscape of our great city from the 7th floor of their insanely huge library.

+ there's been some nice little bonuses, e.g. entitled to NUS Card, and consequently Yellow Card, which I plan on using to the max down there tommorow night.

Speaking of peanut butter i'm going to let my son (15 months old) try it for the first time.
What are the chances of it turning him into an parrot?
Well actually what are the chances of it turning him into a green parrot.............A red parrot I can live with but I dont like green.

pmh is your man for avian advice. You like nuts but not vanilla? I don't think we're ever going to agree on anything.

Reading that has just given me a horrible flash-back of my 4 mis-spent years studying Karl Marx, Karl Marx and errrrrrrr oh, Karl Marx. Think there was a bit of Durkheim and Weber in there too.

Marx & Weber have that effect on us all