The hardest year

Hello there!!

This is my last blog and I want to share with all of you about my 2009.

When I got in university in last year, I was full of doubts about how will it be. Now, almost two years from there, I have only one thing for sure: This is exhausting!! In this year I had thirteen subjects in eight months. I don't know how, but I think I'm going to finish everything ok, but extremely tired. This makes me think about the relation between my mental health and good marks... Unfortunately for my brain, I choosed the marks.

As I said, thirteen were my subjects this year, some of them really interesting, some of them extremely boring. Others were hard and others not so much, but the other thing that I've learnt in university, is that nothing is free. Anyway, I didn't put everything of me in all the exams, but I choose the subjects that really matters to me and I studied more in those.

Chilean social history was, and this is for sure, the best subject of the year. It was amazing to see the chilean history from a really different perspective than any other time that I had seen it. Also, I got really good marks so I am very happy for that subject in general. In other hand, a really good subject, but not with such good marks was Theory I. In this case, the problem was in myself: I can´t study until the night before the test, so, I don’t read everything I need or I want to read and I am averyday really sleepy, it sucks.

The worst subject was quantitatives techniques I. It was so boring, and I just can’t see myself making surveys all my life. In general, there were really good subjects and others not so much, but the evaluation is positive, because I learnt a lot of new things that will be useful for my career now and in the future.

This year leaves some challenges for the second half of my studies here in University. The first one, is to be more responsible with my readings, not only for the exams, but always and because I really like to know what the authors said. But more importan than that, I must learn to combine my studies with the rest of my life. I have always thought that University can not be the only thing that a person should do, but going out, to be with my girlfriend or friends in general, or participate in other activities it’s extremely important, and I am never going to leave those things.

Good luck in everything, it wasn’s so awful to make this blogs.

The sociology facing reality

The sociology pretends to be the discipline that understand better the reality and all her complexity, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, but it could be said that this is the principal challenge of sociology.

Well, but this social reality can be abord from several persepectives, theorics or from practical troubles of today: Poverty, social structure, economy, politics, etc. But today we are going to focus on three particular areas: technology, social matters and education. Before anything, I must clarify that somethings that are going to be told here aren't specificly about the clasical sociology, but from a point of view that mixes different professions, like anthropology, psychology or economy.

The relation between technology and sociology has been very good from the beggining of this science. Helping specially with the data treatment in stadistics and several machines and computers softwares that helps in the data analyze.  By other hand, technology like a matter to be studied, has been related with the social work division. In this case, the use of technology has been looked critically, like a phenomenon that in the modernity has submit to the human work. So, the technology isn't bad by it self, but the man hasn't always given a human use.

With social matters, the sociology is directly related. As I said at the begginin of this blog, poverty, social structure, happiness or life conditions have been the most important issues in the history of sociology. In general, this science has looked how modernity affect to society in all different parts of it, from the most intime relations to the structural relations between the states or in the economy.

Finally, in the education, the sociology has studied how this affect in the first years of life to the personality of the children (this also does the educational psychology). Also has studied how the education generates social differences in the structure, so, who "grabs" the better carrers, also get the better jobs and salaries. Or, who studies more, also will get a better position in society.

The problem in these issues like in many others ones, is that sociology isn't always prepared to offer solutions to them. So, the challenge is open, is necessary that sociology get a good position between sciences and could be prepared to face all the problems of different societys.

That's all, thanks for reading.