Blog post 5 - A subject I have enjoyed studying this year

 

This year I started studying sociology and in this second semester I took a class on social theory. Because of the things that have happened this year, the modality of the class has been online, so the relationship with my classmates and teachers is different from what it could be in other years. The course is given with video capsules while we read the authors and, before the exam, we have a face-to-face online class. The general purpose of the course is to present the arguments and fundamental concepts of the founders of the sociological theory (marx, durkheim y weber, who are the ones in the photo) produced approximately between 1840 and 1930 in both Europe and North America.

 What I like about this subject are two things: one is that the discussions that occur force me to reflect, and another is that it is the most practical subject because the things I learn I can apply to real life and start making my own reflections. I believe that this is the class that most feeds my ego as a sociologist, I feel that I have a tool that elevates me from the world and, unfortunately, it makes all the things that I see turn into nonsense.