Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Connection: Humanities+Sociology

The topics we discuss in Humanities remind me as if we are in Sociology class too. The whole philosophical, thinking about other people in odd ways, like challenging yourthoughts remind me of studying human behavior, like in Sociology. Thinking deeply in your own mind and about other minds sometimes I have to sit back in English and remind myself I am in English class not history.
To me, Sociology is the study of human behavior and Humanities is the study of human expression through art, literature and language. So they connect because together they are the total human brain study. Studying the mind and behavior and how one acts also the language and thought process of writing comes through the brain. We are basically emerging ourselves into trying to figure out other people's brains and the points and arguments that they are trying to make. But it isn't just the brain that effects us in Humanities and Sociology , it is also the environment we live in , thefamily we are born into, the culture also plays a major role in how we make discoveries about people. That is the one big connection between the two, is we have to study the culture of the piece we are reading or the people we are analyzing first before we can judge or
comment or conclude anything about them.

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