Last class was our first time to learn sociology. Sociology seems to be friendly in some degree but on the other hand it seems to be abstract and ambiguous concept. To write down what I understand, sociology is a study of researching society. In sociology we use various method to study human behavior and social relation. In last class we learn one of the methods called operationalization. Operationalization is process of making the concept measurable to understand the concept in terms of empirical observation. An example of operaionalizaion is an age. Because an age is operationalized with numbers representing years or days. These were explanation about the concept of sociology we learned in the class. 
And then we start debating to understand sociological imagination which tell us why sociology is useful in everyday life. Our first topic was “Why does fashion change?” Our team thought fashion changes because people’s values changes. As time goes passes the environment of era changes then what people need also changes. We thought fashion reflects people’s need and from this opinion the change of fashion was inevitable.
Our second topic was “Why is Starcraft so popular in Korea?” Our team prudently thought about this topic but unfortunately none of our members have played computer games so we have a hard time with this topic. But from other team’s presentation I can get the answer of this topic. Other team said Korea is a front-runner of game industry and teamwork which is the characteristic of Starcraft was suitable for Koreans.
My first class of Invitation to Sociology was great time because I learned the concept of sociology and I had valuable time with my team.
I feel sympathy of how you feel sociology as an abstract study. However, the abstract character of sociology can also be an advantage. The fact that sociology has no exact definition can also mean that it can have numerous definition. In this light, I think sociology has great possibility. I guess you already know this but I wanted to share my thought :)
ReplyDeleteTopic 2/ At first, we were a team who do not play the game, but were discussed based on what had been listening or know usually. When teaching, but deep content does not mention, while actively discussed, and shared the idea of each other.
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