Concordia’s Behavioral Sciences Club & Bella Amore invited Drs. John Lu (Psychology), Jack Schultz (Anthropology), and Kristen Koenig (Sociology) to help make sense of the way people vote, how they deal with the aftermath—whether as winners or as losers—and how to relate to those who see the world rather differently. The student organizer was Kya Bock, president of the Behavioral Science Club.
“We often don’t want to understand. We just want them to stop … yet the task of the anthropologist is to say, OK, I know that this is going to make me uncomfortable, I know it’s a really different world view, I know I’m going to find lots of things I disagree with, but can I understand why they are thinking this way. Can I understand how their world is shaped, and how they’re participating in it?”—Jack Schultz
Photo Credit: Anna Stills