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Week 1: 9/4/18

In week one of our sociology class we learned that sociology is the systematic study of
human society. We got to know our classmates and professor in ways that you might
not in other college classes. We learned that sociology is much like science but relies
on research to understand. Sociology is what guides people's thoughts or in other words
explains how society influences our life choices. We also learned that society is the main
cause of most problems in our world. The main reason for sociology is to generate society.
For a sociologist to transform society they must look at the bigger picture using a global
perspective which is why depending on which country you live in you are said to live in a
high, middle, or low-income counties. These are important because where we live shapes
the life we live and other countries’ actions shape our way of life. Another thing I found
interesting about this chapter was positivism, or a scientific approach to knowledge based
on “positive” facts as opposed to mere speculation.  
This video outlines the reasons as to why we do anything we do or why we are who we are.
The video explains why we listen to certain music, why we celebrate certain holidays, why or
who continues their education after high school, ect. Everything we know or do in life depends
on where we have grown up and many other factors in our lives.
To benefit myself and society I can decide to eat healthier. By checking the labels on the
things I eat for healthy things I can try to influence others in lowering the obesity in this world.                                                   
To affect society in a negative way would be too spend too much time on my phone
throughout the day. Spending too much time on my phone would result in being anti-social.
It is a good thing win our world to be commutative so that we can work with our peers to make
this world a better place to live and grow.                                               
Society helps shape my ability to live with people. By this I mean that society has many ways
of making people interact with people they have never met before or barely know. This is a way
helping people get to know others.  
Society has a negative impact on us by coming up with so many new technological things like
phones, computers, gaming tools. This is taking our attention away from reality and consuming
us into a fake online world. Which is making us less communicative with others around us.  

Solution to this problem: Spend less time on social media or even our cell phones. If you
need to talk to someone who is a close friend and doesn’t live miles and miles away, take a
drive to their house and have a real conversation. Or if they live in the same town as you, take
a nice walk or even bike ride over to their house. We could bring bake brunch dates and letter
writing and then social media won't be as big of a problem to us.            

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