Understanding Culture and Society Post 1

For this first post I have been asked how I might begin to think sociologically.

I try to think of my social location and my worldview. For me to understand my worldview, it took a lot of years of personal development and understanding of myself to understand how other people feel and how they work. Growing up in a town where everyone is labelled 'scumbag', led me to believe that it is true. However I later learned that the is always a reason for why people are the way they are. Life is a long process where either a bias can be developed after many occasions or they can be made because of a single event that happened at one point in someones life.

I like to think I always think without bias. Whenever I hear something about someone, I might continue the conversation, all the while not believing it. I try my best to hear the story from the person in question or see concrete evidence for someone that could be a celebrity before I go on to believe what I am told. The reason why I think like this is because when I was younger and in school, rumours would go around about me, like they do to every child, and people would automatically assume it is true. Even when I denied it. I have always hated not being believed and being misunderstood, and I think it's because of the strong empathy that I have always had that I would give someone the courtesy to be heard before I pass judgement.

In terms with the 8 Social Institutions, I'll make this short. With Family, although I may be close to my family, My parents divorced when I was 1 and growing up I had an abusive older brother. I believe it's because of this that I don't value the importance of family, though I meet other people that can't live without them. I have been in many forms of education and I feel that it is very important that it should be made better and teachers should understand the issues student may have. I have Dyspraxia and I was never given a chance until recently to be understood or helped with my issue. This is why one day I would love to be a teacher. Religion is good thing as long as you don't push your views on others, The media is complex and bias. Economy... I have no views on other than my own personal wages. Government is important for structure and people always want more and it's easy to blame the government for everything. These of course are all quick and rough ideas of how I feel from my worldview and should be takien with a grain of salt until I give a longer explanation.

I hope I have gotten right what I have been asked to do, however I notice I may have rambled a bit about myself. I'll try to understand more about culture and society and see how my understanding of the subject changes throughtout the duration of this module.

-Ryan