Henslin, What is Sociology
Reading this chapter was really interesting to me because my dad is an archaeologist and majored in anthropology (a social science) and my mom works in education and majored in geography (a natural science). Since my dad is an archaeologist, I’ve had many trips with him doing fieldwork where I actually got to work my way up to being a crew chief where we would go and do GPR (ground penetrating radar) and I also got to do the fun stuff like digging around in the dirt and finding old artifacts or standing over 5000-year-old mummified bodies! So having my parents have those type of backgrounds is probably why I am so interested in sociology; and now, also taking this class realizing a lot of my questions are more psychology related. I’m still extremely excited about learning more about people and cultures and why those things define us, or why some things are so normal to one culture, can be seen so foreign or wrong to another. Also reading this chapter made me realize that I am extremely qualitative side- but I can also understand how quantitative can be extremely useful in some situations. A joke my dad said was a quantitative likes to use numbers and that way we get to be called Scientists because were using numbers!
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