Running Head: Chapter 1-and Chapter 2 Response Paper Questions
Question Response-Chapter 1 & 2
How this course will be beneficial to my education & Career goals
Kwasi Nyamekye
Kean University
SOC 1000 15
Prof. Andrea Todman
September 3, 2011
Before interring this class I already had a general idea of what sociology pertained to. Now after reading chapters one and two I have gain a more specific definition of what sociology is. “Sociology is the scientific study of social behavior and human groups.” (pg 23, T. Schaefer) To me this course will broaden my ability to understand a vast variety of different cultures that are in our society today. Without the ability to comprehend a individuals, culture and there was of life, it would be hard to collaborate with that person. One of the unfortunate stigmas that has been carried on throughout our society since the dawn of time. Is the fear of understanding a culture that is different than the one that your use to. I have come to a conclusion that this course was designed to break the cycle and to open the minds of young scholars to be able to accept cultures that are different, in so many ways.
This course will be of assistance to me in a variety of ways. When your able to understand why a person’s behavior is the way it is . You will be able to better work with that person no matter the environment which you are placed in. For example, in our culture when we are speaking to one another. We as a society would like the keep a small distance from the person that you are speaking to. We like to call that distance personal space or a more technical word comfort zone. But in France, the French are a group of people who like to communicate with a person in a much closer proximity that we are a custom to use to. So take for example that you are in France and you ask a male French man for direction and you are also a male. Yes, he will be more than happy to assist you. But in the back of your mind you will think that is French man is a homosexual. So as he is moving closer and closer to you whiles he is talking, you as a foreigner will be moving away from him because you have the idea that he is gay. So even tho the French man intentions are just. You as a person who is completely blind to the norms of that culture will feel offended and even disgusted.
I have gained knowledge though previous study in families and society which comes in correspondence with understanding sociology. One of the main reasons why relationships end up in separation, and marriages ending up in divorce, is due to of the lack of understanding of culture on both parts. Whenever you meet a person of interest, the one thing that catches your eye about one another is the physical attraction. Even though, you may not know a thing about the person that you’re interested in all you see is the physical which is the main cause of break separation.
For as long as I can remember, I always knew I wanted to purse a carrier which will bring me bring me wealth and happiness but not at the expense of others. Before I made my career choice, I took a look and analyzed myself as an individual. I took my personal characteristics and placed them in a career which would suit me perfectly. I’m the person that would always put others before myself. Im the kind of person who cares about the wellbeing of others. Even though I know that I may not receive the same treatment in return. That is the fact that I have come to realize about our society. After looking at these two major facts, I came to a conclusion that I wanted to become a registered nurse.
This course will give me the ability and willingness to understand my patients on a much deeper level. This course will give me the ability to be patient with my patients, which will in conclusion give me the ability to take better care of them in the long run. The main purpose of my job is to give them the physical care that they are in need of in order for them to return back to the physical condition once they were in original state. I feel that I can better accomplish that by better understanding them as a person.
Sociological Imagination was introduced by C. Wright Mills.(pg.5 T. Schaefer) He tried to understand social behaviors, he said that its basically the awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society, both today and in the past. I feel that this ties in to what I was trying to explain about the foreigner and the French man. Both cultures must find a way to come together to understand one another and to understand a common connection.
In conjunction with my education, this course will defiantly give me the ability to tolerate and to achieve to strive past the expectation of the various professors. Not two professors are the same. One moment I may have a professor who require there students to though rally express themselves in their papers. Then I may encounter a professor who doesn’t care so much about the work all he want to see is if his students ran communicate the teachings back to him or her through lectures and exams. I must be able to differentiate each professor by observation and through communication. This course will defiantly broaden my ability to communicate with different professors from different backgrounds.
Work Cited page
Schaefer T. Richard(2011) Sociology A Brief Introduction. 9th edition ,DePaul University
(pg. 5—49) New york , New York
