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Man and society

Discover a non-exhaustive list of the different possible professions in the Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences.

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Researcher (M/F) in anthropology
Researcher (M/F) in humanities
Researcher (M/F) in experimental social sciences
Researcher (M/F) in archaeology

Researcher (M/F) in anthropology

Carrying out careful and meticulous field investigations, the ethnologist/anthropologist seeks to understand social groups and individual and collective situations from a perspective from within the group. The aim is to give an account of the social, ritual, and cultural reality by being attentive to the words and categories of the individuals themselves, which involves mastering the local language(s) in order to be able to communicate effectively. A social group’s sensitive and symbolic aspects are at the heart of anthropological research, as are its technical and material ones. Curious about contemporary reality, the ethnologist/anthropologist also knows how to draw on the past to think about the present.

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Researcher (M/F) in humanities

The work of bibliographic research, reading, editing, comparing, and critically interpreting texts and manuscripts is central to many disciplines. Intensive analysis of texts and documents as well as chance discoveries sometimes lead us to spending many long hours in libraries. Found both close by and far away, these institutions are all temples of knowledge, and at a time when considerable parts of the collections have been digitized, many researchers in the social sciences and humanities still work in archives or libraries, whether they be large, generalist institutions or specialized and valuable documentary spaces such as those maintained by many research units. The material nature of books and manuscripts is an essential aspect of the research work, and it is complementary to the work on corpora or the digital data. This engagement with sources of knowledge is part of a very long and prestigious tradition of scholarship; far from being solitary, library work is also conducive to friendly interactions and the exchange of ideas.

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Researcher (M/F) in experimental social sciences

The activity of a researcher using experimental methods in the social sciences centers around the idea that putting individuals in simulated or real-life scenarios leads to a better understanding of individual and collective behavior. Whether in a lab aiming to recreate an artificial context as close as possible to the real world, or in a real field using a mobile lab, the researcher uses experiments to reveal and then replicate a phenomenon using a method closely related to the chemist's or biologist's sample studies. A researcher in experimental social sciences thus attempts to understand the complexity of animal and human behavior through an original prism, which increasingly combines various methodologies from cognitive and social psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. He or she needs to develop expertise in conceptual analysis and modeling, experimental design creation and implementation, and big data analysis.

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Researcher (M/F) in archaeology

Understanding past societies, from prehistoric times to the present, through the material traces of their activities is central to an archaeologist’s work. Site excavation, land surveying, the study of objects, and the environmental impact of ancient societies provide an account of history over the long term, enabling us to understand various social, economic, cultural and political developments.

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