Bhavanam, Richa
(2008)
Social Science – A springboard for life.
Learning Curve (15).
pp. 125-127.
Abstract
Sociology’ and ‘Psychology’- I have shared a
relationship of fascination with these two words from
the time that I vaguely knew what they meant. It is
quite absurd actually, the idea of studying society, people,
their brains, emotions, reactions, (all of it/the whole lot!).
Having studied subjects like English and Math for the first
16 years of my life, these topics seemed to be scattered,
disorganized, and all-in-all impossible to look at through
one fixed framework. How can our actions and feelings be
explained by a set of theories and rules? True, they cannot.
As I later found out, the social sciences are not monolithic,
in that, they do not use one, single theory that everyone
in the field agrees with and follows. They each carry their
own view point, ideas, questions, and answers. Perhaps this
is the reason that both sociology and Psychology contain
many, many facets, and, for me, this multi-facetedness is
one of the beauties of the social sciences.
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