Career...?

Question

I've decided I want to be either an anthropologist or a sociologist.

What exactly do they do?

Are all of them teachers?

Which one is more stable?

Do they make good money?

Answer 1

you could become one of those people who go and look up things....like try to find achient things...i also want to be an anthroppologist of some sort.

You could also work in museums or something like that.

Answer 2

IT career-http://myitcareer.info/

Answer 3

As social scientists they both utilize similar processes of thought, although sociologists tend to focus on the social processes (economic statuses, equality issues, gender issues, etc.) of Western societies and cultural anthropologists (as opposed to biological anthropologists studying evolutional processes, linguistic anthropologists, and archaeologists, stuyding past societies through material remains) on non-Western ones, or at least on more broad ranging topics like folklore, folkways, and belief systems in addition to those social processes.  Almost all are professors because one cannot live on grant money alone.  Both are stable if you work for a college.  "Good" money is a relative term, but most professors start out around 40 grand, moving up to around 80 after getting tenure after 10 or more years.  It takes 4+ years to get a PhD. and 1-3 to skip around to different colleges as T.A.s and visiting professors to build up your resume for a tenure track positions.  It's a very different lifestyle.  Some professors at big universities make 120000+ after tenure, but these are the most brilliant people in the world and they're most likely not giving up their seats too soon.  You could work as one on the side, provided you do your fieldwork or research when you have time off.  Lots of publishing and grant writing in addition to preparing lectures, class discussions, and correcting papers.