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Essay / What I Learned in Sociology - 1147
The last few months of this course have been an enriching and memorable learning experience. Some of these lessons I will carry with me for the rest of my life. I feel better prepared to face society and its inhabitants in my quest for a better future. I can begin to answer essential questions about how society really works, our place in history, and who will prevail. As I pursue my educational and professional goals, I will be equipped with an arsenal of facts and a new way of thinking that I can integrate into everything I do. Is the sociological perspective a new lens to view the world through. Which allowed me to see how larger global issues affect me and how I affect them in turn, giving me the ability to predict the direction of the world and make smarter choices with a greater degree of accuracy , which is always of interest. require skills. There are some things I learned and saw that are so moving that I think they deserve to be mentioned first. The Babies documentary would be one of those things. It was an eye-opening film, not only did it reinforce my personal decision not to have children, but it also reminded me how fundamentally similar all human beings are, regardless of culture. I believe the documentary actually had very little to do with babies, but was instead designed to show us that, regardless of our race, religion, and socioeconomic status, we are all human beings. Watching a baby grow up in a rural African village and another in California blowing raspberries and learning their first words is what makes it all possible. I'm sure if you put all these kids in the same room, without any special signs like jewelry or clothes, you wouldn't even know who came from where. Deviance, another universal trait, was also the name of my favorite chapter in the textbook. The work of Cesare Lomborso