Topics of Sociology post 2

Today in Class we learned how sociology isn’t a physical thing. You can’t go get some sociology at the store or look at it in a museum. Sociology is something you have to notice and be aware of which is
usually because of being taught about it at some point in your life or another. A society can be
something huge or something much less thought about. Society can be the whole of the United States,
Eau Claire Wisconsin, the people in my school, or even my best friend and I. Many people overlook this
and therefore have a very closed view of society. Small parts of society are still a part; You’re just a
few bricks of a very big wall. Many people are very opinionated, or even too opinionated, which
means, in some cases, they are closing themselves off from many perspectives of sociology. People
like to stay in their comfort zones which is human nature, but one of the perspectives of sociology is
being able to see the strange from the familiar, and sometimes that requires putting yourself in
uncomfortable situations. Some people are so self-centered that they do not understand that the
things they do affect other things in their own society. Being able to recognize personal life choices
from societal contexts is one of the four perspectives of sociology. Sociology is the basic social
structures of human society. It's being able to identify the main social forces that hold or
weakened people and learning the conditions that transform social life. Sociology started with the
beginning of an industrial economy. The explosive growth of cities and the emergence of new
political ideas made people more aware of the social world that they lived in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRl8EIhrQjQ

I think this video does a good job of how our society has changed and is continually changing. We are
much more physically removed than we used to be and that’s simply because it’s easier and we can.
We are connected in many different ways than ever were available and there are both good and bad
sides to it. It is much easier to say home and hide behind a screen and entertain ourselves without
ever interacting with another person.

A: You
One thing that I can do to benefit myself and society is Carpooling more so I save money and it’s
better for the environment Something I could do to negatively affect society would be Just being a mean person

B: Society
One thing society could do to affect me in a positive way would be people being generally more kind.
Just saying hello when you walk by.
One thing society does to affect me in a negative way is food being so expensive.