The First Honors Reading

I thought I would start off with a very exciting video on "What is Sociology?", so here it is:

             With that behind, this blog post is my first Honors reading blog post, so bear with me. The first article I was assigned for my honors reading was called What is Sociology? Comparing Sociology and the Other Social Sciences. After reading the article, I didn’t know what to think at first. There was no doubt that I thought it was interesting, but I just didn’t know if it was the good or bad kind of interesting. After I thought about it some more I realized it was the good type of interesting, which is what I was hoping for. It was the good type of interesting because it provided distinct characterizations of the different social sciences. I enjoyed reading how the different social sciences compare to sociology and I found myself relating them in my head later in the day after I was done reading.

            One of the things that caught my eye was of a relationship between the author’s idea of sociological situations and what we did in class a few days ago. On one of the days in class we went over in groups why there could be juvenile delinquency and what were some sociological factors that played in along with psychological factors to cause juvenile delinquency. I immediately made that connection in my head because we went over it in class.

            I can relate the purpose of this article which is the vagueness of the definition of sociology with my own life with relationships. With relationships I do not mean just dating, I mean human interaction and friendships as a whole. Just like introductory students with the ambiguity of the definition of sociology, I felt uncertainty as a first born child with relationships. I had nothing to base my ideas off of and I also had nothing to relate to which would have helped me understand relationships with peers and others better. I’m sorry if that doesn’t quite make sense to you; I had trouble trying to write that connection out on paper. If you have a question about that relation I made then you can ask me so that I can hopefully try to explain it better and more clearly.

            I have already seen my own “biography” influenced by my personal history in so many ways. There are also many different levels which one is influenced. There are many different possibilities that can factor it. Things like going to an all boys or coed school, or a private catholic versus a public school. At the same time, small things like who you pass and say hello to in the hall can also have a very strong effect on a person’s sociological and psychological outcome.

-TH

Post Script: I apologize for not puting my signature "TH" at the bottom of my "The REAL First Post"