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As a freshman in college I can't in knowing I wanted to be a psychologist with this I wanted to takes social science classes that would help me understand people, so I to psychology and sociology. I found that much of what we learned in sociology I had already suspected before even taking the class, and found the factual information that I was told from my professor and I read in the text quite interesting. We went from Sociology In A Changing World to Class and Global Inequality in the text.
In the beginning of the semester we began with Sociology In A Changing World. I learned that sociology is the "systematic study of the relationship between individuals and society." (Croteau/Hoynes p.5) I also learned about how sociology begun in the 1800's as a result of the dramatic change taking place in society. The definition of sociology is the connection I had with this class in relations to psychology, I first had to understand people and their place in society and how they obtain that place and who assigns them the roles they play in society, before I go straight to picking the brains of my future clients. We then moved on to Understanding the Research Process "the two key components, theory and data act together in social science research" (Croteau/Hoynes p.39) This let me know how information is collected that influences the theories that sociologist come up with after much experimenting and the peer-review process. This was extremely close to what I was learning about the research methods of psychology which will come in handy if I would find thy I have come up with a theory of my own when evaluating clients in my future profession. Society puts individuals in groups according to how similar their lifestyles are; one of the most important parts of the grouping is culture which I learned in the Culture chapter that "culture is the collection of values, beliefs, knowledge, norms, language, behaviors, and material objects shared by a people and socially transmitted from generation to generation" (Croteau/Hoynes p.59)
As we got deeper into the semester I got a sense of the social structure which "is recurring patterns of behavior." (Croteau/Hoynes p.87) Through a sociological lens one might observe how an individual responds to simple interactions and their action which may go against or follow the structure. The Power chapter was rather simple and too the point it was about who has power in society and those that abuse their power and exploit others. A lot of this I had already known because of a class I took in high school. Although this did not have too much to do with psychology it is valuable information to know for me to know and understand personally. The next topic we studied was the chapter of Socialization. "Socialization is the process through which people learn their culture's basic norm, values, beliefs, and behaviors." (Croteau/Hoynes p.137) This start to touch on identity and how your identity is molded by agents of socialization. This will help me have a broader sense and a better understanding of how the life-course perspective comes into play when evaluating clients.
Later we moved on to Deviance and Social Control where I learned how the norms are set, by the people in power and who they are set based off of which are the people in power. "Deviance is the behavior that does not conform to basic cultural norms and expectations" (Croteau/Hoynes p.191); deviance can become a norm through a process called medicalization of deviance and will no longer receive stigma or be a subject of the labeling theory. This chapter is very interesting to me because I feel like it screams the production of psychology taking "deviant" behavior and making is a medical disorder which you'll need psychologist to step in. Finally there is Class and Global Inequality much of this I was aware of because of the class I mention earlier that I took in high school. The class system that was brought up I was aware of a lot of what was discussed in regards to this system; but the global inequality I will admit I was not completely aware of in regards to the core nations periphery nations but I did know about the relationship with the semi-periphery nations and I feel like I didn't know about this because then the core nations like the United States would look like bullies, and it's doesn't seem as bad when it's a semi-periphery nation like China because they are better integrated, have a stronger base, and are middle income nations. This helps me understand the difference in different kinds of health issues. This chapter also influenced me to strive to do my best to achieve my individual mobility.
This class truly helped me. I learned new things, I talked and heard about things I already knew about, I got a lot of insight on people that will help me better in psychology. I even got to go to the Apollo Theater for the first time in my life I've lived in New York all my life I've even lived in Harlem on 140th and Frederick Douglas even now that I live in Brooklyn I go visit my friends on 140th and Broadway and the first time I went to the Apollo was because of this class. I really enjoyed that experience I will take the information I learned in this class with me in life especially why I learned in the chapter on Class and Global Inequality. This class really helped me develop a broader perspective which was one of my main goals when I enrolled in this class.
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Signed; The Outlook Blogger.
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