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Anthropologist (555 words) |
 | Cultural anthropologists might compare the culture of the medical world to that of the world of finance, or the culture of professional athletes to that of the legal profession. |
| Some anthropologists take a cross-disciplinary approach to the field, studying linguistics, chemistry, nutrition, or behavioral science, and applying those disciplinesÂ’ methodologies to their study of culture. |
| In the end, few anthropologists leave the profession because of the amount of time, resources, and intellectual energy invested in becoming an anthropologist-usually, those dissatisfied with their choice of career leave during graduate school, before their careers have truly started. |
| Social scientists, other (2512 words) |
| Anthropologists and archaeologists, geographers, and sociologists will experience average growth, but slower-than-average growth is expected for historians and political scientists because they enjoy fewer opportunities outside of government and academic settings. |
| For example, anthropologists, archaeologists, and geographers may travel to remote areas, live among the people they study, learn their languages, and stay for long periods at the site of their investigations. |
| Anthropologists and sociologists will find opportunities performing policy research for consulting firms, nonprofit organizations, and social service agencies in such areas as crime, ethnic conflict, public health, and refugee policy. |
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