"Miss me, yet?"
Posted on 11/16/2013 2:26:00 PM PST by Hojczyk
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Dr. Mike Sosteric, Associate Professor, Athabasca University, [http://www.sociology.org/what-is-sociology]:
Sociology is interested in the world that you have created.
Now, I don’t know about you, but for me, that makes sociology pretty special (in fact according to August Comte, sociology was the “king” of academic disciplines). The fact that sociology takes as its starting point what we have created (i.e., the social order) is what attracted me to sociology in the first place. Before I got into sociology, I had tried several disciplines. I tried engineering, chemistry, and took an extended jaunt into psychology but was never really excited by the materials as I was with sociology.
Now, I can’t remember my engineering or psychology classes, but I still remember my first year sociology course, taught by John Conway at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan. Now here, I thought, was a discipline that explained things. In my first year I learned the leaders of sociology and the different “types” of sociology. I also learned many different explanations for things that I had always wondered about. I learned, for example, why I had such a bad experience in school as a child and why we (i.e., my single parent mom, my brother, and I) were always so poor. It was because of structured inequalities and social biases against single women (biases which still exist today). I also learned about social classes, racism, classism, capitalism, and communism. I learned about gender and socialization, social control, and a plethora of other fascinating sociological facts and theories. From the very first day, I was hooked. This is what I wanted to know about! I wanted to know about the world I had been plopped into and sociology provided that. Using the tools and methods provided by sociologists, I came to understand about the world we live in and how each individual creates it in our day-to-day acts of reinforcement.
Of course, this did not make me a very happy camper because as I learned, the world we live in is a very messed up place. We live in a world of ghastly contrasts. Hollywood stars and corporate moguls jetting around in private planes while 16,000 children a day starve to death. Women who, no matter how hard they try, often end up poor and alone while the husbands take home the pay cheque, pension, and a younger woman. The working classes who struggle to feed their family while the corporate executives grow fat on six figure salaries.
Power for some, hunger for others.
Privilege for a few, wage slavery (or literal slavery in the sweatshops and forced sex shops of the world) for the rest.
Yuck!
As sociologists revealed, it truly was a world of ghastly contrasts and the more I descended into the bowels of the discipline of sociology, the more I realized just how ghastly it all was. By the time I was done my degree, I saw there was very little that was pretty about our world. I was like the “Grim Traveller” from Bruce Cockburn’s song of the same name looking at the world and weeping at the suffering and the pain.
Should have learned to be welders or car mechanics instead.
"Miss me, yet?"
Those are leggings made out of denim, called "jeggings"....quite possibly the most irritating term I've ever heard.
Yes. Thank heavens she is not of the Wal-Mart set... y’know, the ones that think all 5 feet and 300 lbs of them are entitled to wear low-rise skinny jeans.
Majored in Nursing, Masters in Sociology.
New word for me.
It was the second girl, Ms. Abadia, who was into nursing.
Not guilty and should not have a problem in the future if she moved where guys had jobs. Crass, but true.
The problem isn’t that she majored in Sociology. It’s that she majored in something without having any sort of plan on how to use it.
I majored in Liberal Arts. My dad, who was an industrial management bachelors with an MBA MADE me perform due diligence in high school on getting a politics sci degree that he was going to help subsidize.
After a bit of research I told him the following: my preference was to go into policy analysis, but I was going to take a lot of political campaign management classes (emphasis in management) and could also pursue a law degree when I graduated even though that wasn’t my first option.
He was satisfied with that. I ended up futzing around with policy and campaigns for a couple years, but when I didn’t go anywhere I pivoted into an MBA ... Which turned out to have a LOT of commonality with the campaign management stuff.
This twit apparantly did nothing of the sort, simply choosing a major that interested her without knowing what she’d do with it.
Doesn’t appear the NYT is taking comments for this article...cowards.
A major in Philosophy is the ticket!(/s)
Has she tried China? That’s where we send our jobs.
“....with a master’s degree in sociology....”
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And that is supposed to impress a prospective employer?
How many sociologists does this world really need?
>> [The problem is] she majored in something without having any sort of plan on how to use it.
Thus, the “liberal” education — which is not necessarily specific in terms of disciplines, minors, nor majors.
Gonzales: Sociology.
Harry Callahan: Sociology! Well, you'll go far!
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