BLOG 1. WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY? AND BEING A SOCIOLOGIST

Sept 8th 

Angela Wibowo (9367820180)

Summary :

In my opinion, when we’re talking about sociology, we’re talking about social life. In Latin, sociology is divided by 2 words, socius and logos. Socius means companion, social, and logos means the study. Sociology is about learning social life in wider coverage, because it is about people’s response, and analyze the community dynamics. For example, in a Country suddenly the government announce a rule about to lift the price of fuel, and then the people in that country will have to pay more, and more expenses that they have to paid, or like they have to work harder than before to earn money, or maybe some people will get disadvantages from this rule. In my opinion, there is a social change, because of the expensive fuel price makes people’s life change in that country. As a sociologist we observe and analyze about social phenomena, and it may be followed by culture, religions, and others. I think that is what sociologist do, they analyze about what happened in people’s life, and the dynamics of the people, and in sociology, we have to search about the reason why something happened, why people doing this or that, the reason why something is happening, and others. In sociology, we have to see what happened around us with empirical and objective way.

There are so many definitions of sociology, so we have to do operationalization to deal with it. Operationalization makes it more specific and measurable, because there are so many concepts about sociology, so we have to make it more specific so we will know the contex about what we want to analyze. For example, wealth, we can operazionalized it with a measurable definition, such as a people who can earn money more than 100 dollars, and others.

2. What was interesting/what did you learn :

            After I read the articles, now I learned that sociology is not just talking about human interaction with other people, but I learned about how something makes a bigger change in people’s life, and the way how they’re response of something is different based on their culture, gender, religion, and others, and I think this is interesting.  

3. Discussion Point :

            I have a question after I read the articles. Sociologist can do some observing and analyze data about social interaction and social life in peoples, I have a curiosity about Is sociologist has an important role in government’s rule?