Sight Gauge

About me & my intrest in the field of sociology. Do you agree that sociology...?

...is the field most pertinent to the survival of the human species? If not, surely it MUST tie with first place! If you have read my previous post, you will understand where I am going & the "why" to where I am going. My previous questions & answers were the "cake", my fellow sociologists future answers & private communication to this & my future posts will be the all impotant "frosting" on the cake!!! About me...at fifty six years of age I am old enough to have considerable "hind sight" in regards to gauging "fore sight". Coupling these two "gifts" within the field of historical sociology, tragically, does not paint the prettiest of pictures regarding America's future, nor mankind in general. My formal education stopped two semesters short of obtaining my four year degree. My private studies will never stop. My first question to you has already been asked, check my next post for more questions in need of answers.

Public Comments

1. I am inclined to agree with you. It is interesting to look at trends, fashions and/or fads of the past and ponder on how they could have turned out differently by changing one little scenario. Such as; what if Robert E. Lee had accepted Lincoln's offer of commanding Union forces during the Civil War. What would have become of Grant? Would Lee have been our eighteenth president?What if the indigenous people of America had had the foresight to slaughter the first explorers to the new world and burn their ships, or better yet. Learn how to sail them. What would America be today had that occured. Sorry I weld for a living so once the shield drops I have 10 hours of sensory deprivation per day to get through.
2. Sorry, Bobo. I'm disinclined to agree that sociology is that important. I couldn't stand it in college, so I dropped it. It's too susceptible to bias. Its results are soft science at best. Sort of like taking climatology and, instead of using hard science methods, you just make various computer models until they agree with an agenda, then get your government funded friends to agree to create a consensus, and then declare that it's a true fact. Group Think is studied in sociology, and that is to its credit, but it's usually co-opted by journalists, and any science behind Sociology is left starving. Sociology is merely psychology applied to groups. It's interesting, important, but fragile, and can be manipulated far too easily. Here's my order of preference and importance: Cosmology, Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Beer. But keep up the good work, anyway. I studied journalism and history: if it can't be proved it a laboratory, it may be a fad. Now, let's all get out there and stop ManBearPig.
3. I think sociology is important, but not more important than any other subject. I'm a sociology major myself [well, a double major but that is one of my majors]. Sociology on its own may lead to a pit, because it could make one condescending or feeling like they know better than others and not be open. All subjects lead to a better understanding of people and together, they are pertinent as survival.
4. Sociology - the study of gruop mentality You can wrap this all up into a single button - most people dont like to stand alone so they follow others. They become followers - those that stand alone will be the leaders. In every group - even as little as two people - there is a leader and then there are followers. Anyone new to the group is usually "indoctronated" and told how the group runs - this sets the pace so nothing chances and everything remains status quo. Look at the monkey experiments - the ones where they climbed a certain tree and got wet - this was done until all the monkeys in the control learned to stay away from the tree - then one by one the originals monkeys were replaced with new monkeys - the new monkeys never got into the tree because the old monkeys never got into the tree - either that or the old monkeys warned the new monkeys that they woudl get wet - in either case - eventually all the original monkeys were replaced - but none of the new monkeys ever went to the tree at all Like those monkeys - humans do the same thing - they dont want to step outside their comfort zone and so - they become sheepple - they stay away from the tree - so you want to study this for what reason?? to learn how to create new tress for them?? Sociology isnt necessary for the survival o fthe human species - procreation is what is required for that. Sociology is good if you want to learn how to control the group. It has nothing to do with the survival of the group.