Jeanine Kohlbecker September 16, 2011
The studying of Sociology will open my mind to new things and I will be able to understand more in depth how the environment works and how people think and react to situations. Using social imagination will help me to fully understand the broad spectrum of people in the society and how to view the society like an outsider. That will let me see our society from a new perspective and maybe allow me to see things more clearly and relate better to the people in our society. I feel that right now people are viewing our society in a negative manner because of how bad the economy has become over the past five years and how much more corrupt the government has become.
The economy is only getting worse because the government keeps spending our well-earned tax money to give themselves and others like them a raise when they could be using it towards repaying the massive debt we are in. Gas prices constantly jump because the manufacturers are getting to be more and more greedy and demanding more money so gas stations have to raise the price so they can afford to pay for the shipments. Studying Sociology will show me ways to deal with these situations and why people act the way they do in times of crisis and panic. Sociologists are beginning to research into these situations to see if they can come up with positive solutions to make the society better.
Sociologists have to use the following perspectives to gain a unique insight into these situations: functionalist perspectives, conflict perspectives, interactionist perspectives and nonverbal communication. Taking this course and studying sociology will help me to be able to deal with issues in and around my environment. I will be able to use what I learn in this class when doing research about important environmental issues and problems as well as in my everyday life activities. Sociologists may perform experiments to test and study the behaviors and reactions of people in that certain area. They might conduct a survey on a particular topic that is controversial to a lot of people just to see people’s reactions and what they would do in certain situations.
My career goal is to be a Physical Therapist but focusing on Sports and concentrating in Aquatic Therapy. Sociology won’t help me very much because they are two completely different topics and two different areas of study. Physical Therapy is strictly a career that focuses on the body and helping people get back to where they were before an injury or surgery and Sociology studies behaviors in humans and their reactions to environmental dilemmas. I could use a few things from sociology to help me like conducting experiments on certain problems that people may be facing and what symptoms come along with that and using some of the perspectives to gain full insight into how my patients are feeling and what they will do to help themselves in further injury prevention.
The only types of issues I may have to deal with are the ways in which I need to deal with the injuries patients have and the best exercises to give them to guarantee a speedy recovery and full regaining of motion from the injured area. If an issue arises that is outside my career I will rely on the Sociologists to come up with a solution to the problem and I will decide from there whether or not I feel like it’s going to work or whether or not it will be effective.
