Welcome to my first blog post! In this blog I will be discussing what we are learning in my Sociology 107 class at Central Washington University. The first week of Sociology consisted of learning the basic concepts in which we will use throughout the quarter to expand our minds. One of the first topics we talked about is the theories, or paradigms if you want to be proper. Some examples are Conflict Theory, Structural Functionalism, Feminist Theory, etc. The paradigm I would like to focus on today is Post-Modern Theory. The basic breakdown of Post-Modern Theory is that social reality is constantly changing, and because of that the is more than one answer to every question. I completely agree with this assessment out our world and our society, but there was one issue I took with this theory which was brought up by one of my classmates. The description of this theory included a description of science which labeled it as a black and white field with only one answer. Now I understand what they mean by science is a black and white field but I disagree.
In this video Neil Degrasse Tyson explains how science is actively changing through constant research and development. Science is not black and white. It is constantly improving in search of the black and white answers that create our universe. But as long as life in our universe exists there will always be discovery and something new to learn. Therefore, science will always be fluid, not set in stone. Whenever science determines that something is fact, there is a chance that they are correct, but an equal chance that someone will discover a different reality, set in stone. The great part about our society is that I may be completely wrong in my assessment of science, and it is okay because we all have our own opinions about everything. The same qualities that make differing opinions respectable makes science fluid, the fact that no matter how confident you are in your opinions, you could still be wrong. Science is fluid, politics is fluid, Sociology is fluid, and that’s what makes it great. I am excited to get into sociology, and go deep into the issues we will be learning about. I have always been interested in politics, and economics, but sociology covers both of those subjects and how they come together to form what makes our society they way we know it.
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