Anthropological study includes human genetics as well as personality and society, the prehistoric past as well as the present, indigenous peoples as well as industrial urbanites, the customs of ancient civilizations as well as the beliefs of folk peoples today and the study of our evolutionary relatives, the non-human primates. Anthropologists reconstruct societies and civilizations of the past, and analyze the cultures and languages of modern peoples. Anthropologists reconstruct societies and civilizations of the past, and analyze the cultures and languages of modern peoples.
Anthropology is the study of all aspects of humanity at all times.
Anthropolgy deals with the biological and cultural aspects of human development and behavior, and contributes to a better understanding an dappreciation of existing cultural differences. The aging of our nation, and of the world, has profound implications for every aspect of social life. The gerontology program in the Department of Sociology, Gerontology, and Anthropology provides students with multidisciplinary perspectives and multidimensional information on the processes, consequences, and implications of aging for the individual and for society. Aging affects everyone. Most of us will grow old, and all the groups in which we live have older members.