Sociological Perspectives
by Some sociological perspectives.
Sociology can be taken as an understanding of the way people live around you and the commonalities and differences there are regarding the many issues that affect that living.
Naturally when two people meet and fall in love with one another, one might think they did so because of love but there are other factors that influence their height of their romance. They may both come from educated family, wanting a partner who can offer a better future. They may both be against a particular code of living and are united by their rebellion or indifference.
Patterns in the way different people get an education, get married, respect their dead, make friends and more are all shared between different cultural groups. Those groups show superficial differences but the key to understanding mankind’s effort to live within a certain means and cope with these factors, is through observing how they co-exist in groups or societies. Through this knowledge we can observe common trends and variations between different cultures that make us distinct or similar.
This distinction may be translated onto a national level as societies tend to characterize the nation that it hosts. Societies can also be distinct enough so that the nation be it Canada or another post colonial nation hosts a variety of new citizens who within their own ‘micro-societies’ and do not mingle with other immigrant groups. Societies are also characterised by migrations and the movement of people across borders in times of environmental or political calamity.
If distinctions can be paralleled to the economic realities of those nations one can observe how certain cultures will have a better ability to emerge from a lower income base. Thus one may be able to get a high education in a Canadian society because of a healthier income and be less likely to afford higher schooling in Bolivia if the average income is lower.
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Post CommentFabian C
On December 18, 2009 at 10:17 am
Good intro. Although I must disagree with the idea that ’societies tend to characterize the nation that it hosts’, as my experiences tend to place social identities lie within institutions, of which the ‘nation’ is becoming lost to politics. Although, I must admit that I live in ‘Australia’: where almost everyone at every level of identification (provincial, town, association, profession, familial, ‘racial’, etc.) is a foreigner to everyone else.
jaysonv
On December 18, 2009 at 10:22 am
wow..nice article.. very interesting.
ecrivan wordwizard
On December 18, 2009 at 12:15 pm
This is just a short introduction really. I don’t want to get caught in semantics here.I don’t think the word nation is being lost to politics but has several meanings one of which was intended here as a political entity characterized by a border, customs bureau passport and the like.Nation also refers to a self-identifying group whose origins are yet older than that political body that surrounds it. The Navajo Indian “nation” can be set an example.Naturally your world comprises another set of factors much as Canada is also made up of various foreign groups that become naturalized and seek to keep their own identity.So I am well aware of the various factors at place to describe society and how it interacts with the space it occupies.