Crash Course So y'know when someone at work asks to borrow your pen - never returns it - and then asks to borrow it again? What drives this behaviour? Why is it so frustrating? _And where do these pens go?_
I skipped school today to decide what I want to study in university, for years now I thought Im going to be a computer engineer or film maker (they are at least more interesting to me than biology or chemistry or maths).. so I have been doing some research about every major.. biology, medicine, mechanical engineering, chemistry, maths etc.. and when I discovered philosophy I kinda liked it.. and now I see sociology and I literally can't sit still.. I LOVE IT. I love these things. I didn't know I could even study those things. March 14th, 2019 (writing this to myself mainly)
@@mahmoudshatnawi6122 I have been studying environmental studies and biology! I have enjoyed it and learned a lot, but at the end of the day I don't think I want to have a career as a biologist. I will probably pursue a masters in sociology, related to environmental studies
@@PastorDaveTube do you think 'patterns' are 'cause and effect'. event A will be followed by event B. as I recall David Hume, he thought not. pattern can be a bit more broader. I remember Russell saying: "even in physics we do not use cause and effect anymore." but with sociology relation of events in society can be unlimited thought. I personally think in terms of the movie Dune. What power...
@@mitchellkato1436 I believe the system of motivation is the answer to the why in human behavior in addition to the creation of identity. There is a pattern in all people and mankind's creation itself that has been shaped by this system. This is deep in the mind and once you see it, you then understand why people do what they do. Sociology to me is an observing view only from the surface.
@@PastorDaveTube This may not be in line with your thought, but sociology can become a cult. Only the believers will understand it. Only the selected and the knowers understands the patterns. And then the believers are able to cloak themselves. Which allows the members to predict the future. (When one is not under the influence of "to observer is to disturb". Predictions can be enhanced.)
Mitchell Kato there is more that is being communicated from individuals most people cannot see. But once you understand how it works you can see more. I look towards the energy inside the mind that moves their being. Seeing the future is for others.
Sociology is not about left or right, liberalism or conservativism. It is about understanding society without moral and value judgments. It is a science, presenting theories prone to falseability, and much other "requisites" Great video, btw!
What if I just hate everybody? I guess I could be an unbiased researcher then who tries to find out how to make life more miserable for everybody.. Oh boy, I better get me a smoke
I'm so glad you are doing this series! As a sociology student, it's great to see the major principles laid out for me in a much simpler way than my intro classes did :) Regardless of your feelings towards its perspective, sociology is a unique way of looking at the world that more people should know about.
Sociology is my major and I love the subject. However I know how difficult it is to explain it without talking about society. Society is like “god” it was here before you got here and it will be here when you are gone.
Shaina Gonzales I feel like sociologists make broad generalizations and categorize people into big groups that individuals may not agree with. For example to say that people with "black sounding names" get hired less than those with "white sounding names" is probably statistically accurate but if youre an employer you could take offense if you think they are saying that youre part of the problem. Also whenever there is disagreement in the discipline about how to define said discipline it gets messy.
Oh boy, I'm sure the comments section is going to be full of positivity and understanding about this topic, and if there is any informed criticism of sociology in general it will have sensible foundations and be made in good faith.
Rocky183 or perhaps the comments section will also not see it as weird if they say that white people commit more egregious crimes that are geared toward hatred of other people based on race, gender, sex. So sick of assholes in the comments bringing up black communities if you don't live in one and you aren't from one then keep it to yourself what you THINK you know about one.
As someone who works in science fields, watching these crash courses (history, literature, etc) feels awesome. Being locked up on our field makes everyone a bit less... fun. Now I know a bit about what I was pretty much never taught, and -again- it's awesome. Thanks for doing this, guys!!
Yeah I would definitely think so. I mean sociology would aim to understand humour and memes are just another form humour, a form of humour that has seemingly boomed.
I mean, the term meme is a sociological term (at least to my knowledge) used to describe an element of culture and how it spreads. So I'd say sociology has already answered it
her: some people like broadway musicals me: hamilton her: some people like hip hop me: hamilton her: some people like both me: hamilton, everyone loves hamilton
Everyone who argues about whether or not sociology is a science, do you think it is not wirth studying? Should we all just ignore the fact that society shapes us all, how and why? Just because a subject isn't necessarily quantifiable or 'sciency' enough, does that mean we should all just ignore it?
Yup, if you're going into it to learn about society. Why not learn a skill instead? The studies are not reproducible, there is a huge bias in what gets published and what doesn't, such that the literature is not a reliable source of truth. The literature is what the theories are founded on. Hence the theories are unreliable. Why would you want to learn something that may well be false? Sociology should be studied if you're going to go out and try to improve these problems of course. Less investigating society, more investigating how they investigate, and how the findings can be verified.
As someone on the Autism spectrum seeing "the strange in the familiar" is already how I see my society and world. Unlike my younger self, I mostly understand the cultural norms now that I didn't before. However, It's easier for me to separate myself from my cultural background as a result of my upbringing and being autistic when analyzing the basics of "common sense". I think sociology is such an interesting subject that most people don't put into consideration on daily basis because of how ingrained it is in our lives.
For the people who disliked the video, and came here to write/read your positions: Please just take a moment, and think about what you're doing. This crash course barely started yet, and it already has a 10% dislike ratio. Since the video was well produced and well presented, it's fairly safe to assume that most of the dislikes came from people who assumed that the course will differ with their personal beliefs. C'mon guys, be a little open-minded.
Hey friend, I know sometimes it's hard to be hopeful about people with different opinions, but I do believe that most people can change, so it's very important to be patient and respectful with everyone. Maybe if everyone does this, more people will open their minds and become better people.
"well presented" That is where I have a problem. I'm neither right nor left, I'm what some might call "centrist" and this video leans towards left harder then I've ever seen crush course do. (perhaps I just haven't seen enough of those) They've had thousands of negative examples to choose from, yet they've only picked problems highlighted by the leftist, often extreme leftist. They have even used exact same vocabulary. And later on they casually mention they just might help us "fix it". I would be very interested in learning how and why our society operates the way it does or in short, learn SOCIOLOGY. This is not what they seem to set out to do, they will _inform_ you what the problem is and then, they will tell what _you_ should do to fix it. No sociology here, just propaganda. But hey, I've been wrong before, lets see.
Economics for example can be examined in sociology just like social justice and an array of other type of things... if it involves human interaction which is the main focus here, not to determine right and wrong but to understand how a society and it's culture function and change over time ,or evolve to adapt to the situation... individually and on large scale... i think of it more as a part of philosophy but about how people work not the universe.. i hope i didn't get it wrong but that's how i see it..
Out of all things, I did not expect Geography to be the subject that CC f*cked up, I mean, it seemed like John really went out of his way to make it politically divisive. I hope that there's a new CC Geography - I really like Geography - all John needs to do is separate his politics from his work and it will be a success.
Chinmaya thanks for the trigger warning, I don't think I could handle glancing at an opposing viewpoint, let's just cut out trying to understand eachother to
+Inner G opposing viewpoints can only be argued against when they are based on evidence. And the "viewpoint" that people of other colours are less evolved is invalid because it has no basis in evidence. It's like trying to tell Donald Trump that Obama didn't tap his wires. Of course he didn't, and Trump has no evidence. So he'll just say, "No, you're lying." or some variation of that repeatedly until we stop.
"warning: don't read the comment" Reasonable person: "well, I assume this comment section is a warning of insults and unsupported claims, I'll just go to the next video" Me: "give me my popcorn and chips"
1 What Is Sociology? 2 Major Sociological Paradigms 3 Sociology & the Scientific Method 4 Sociology Research Methods 5 Émile Durkheim on Suicide & Society 6 Karl Marx & Conflict Theory 7 Dubois & Race Conflict 8 Harriet Martineau & Gender Conflict Theory 9 Max Weber & Modernity 10 Symbols, Values & Norms 11 Cultures, Subcultures, and Countercultures 12 How We Got Here 13 Social Development 14 Socialization 15 Social Interaction & Performance 16 Social Groups 17 Formal Organizations 18 Deviance 19 Theory & Deviance 20 Crime 21 Social Stratification 22 Why is there Social Stratification? 23 Social Stratification in the US 24 Social Class & Poverty in the US 25 The Impacts of Social Class 26 Social Mobility 27 Global Stratification & Poverty 28 Theories of Global Stratification 29 Economic Systems & the Labor Market 30 Politics 31 Sex & Sexuality 32 Gender Stratification 33 Theories of Gender 34 Race & Ethnicity 35 Racial/Ethnic Prejudice & Discrimination 36 Age & Aging 37 Theories About Family & Marriage 38 Stages of Family Life 39 Religion 40 Education In Society 41 Schools & Social Inequality 42 Health & Medicine 43 Population Health 44 The Structure & Cost of US Health Care
I rarely comment but this comment section needs some positivity. And I really liked that introduction. It seems set out to be an interesting course and I like the moderator's voice.
If you studied sociology you would know it is most certainly not just a left leaning discipline, classical sociology specifically has been heavily criticised as being socially conservative - there seems to always be an attack on sociology as being common sense which really undermines all of the important sociological research that has been conducted
The science and its study are simply not the problem. It's not biased in and of itself. It would best be fitted "center row" if anywhere in a technically political term (being based on actual common sense or sensibility) The problems stem from political zealots. Regardless of their principles or biases (and some aren't terrible if you keep them in fitting scale as influences instead) zealots are absolutely hell-bent to dominate everything. They'll scream to the very last syllable of breath in their beings that anything and everything except them is flawed. These people are completely out of their minds, and unfortunately, they're the ones taking charge of the political atmosphere since people with any REAL sensibility will best avoid it. Politics make horrible things out of otherwise decent people! ;o)
"Seeing the strange in the familiar and the general in the particular" is one of the most interesting statements I can remember hearing. Thanks CC. This is ONE of the reasons why I come here so often!
So many people bashing sociology yet there exists no other alternative for the study of society and human behavior in a social context, and I don't see any of these people coming up with anything better. Put up or shut up, as they say.
PSA: Sociology is a science. The science of how people behave in the context of the groups they subscribe themselves in. It is like studying Biology, but in a social sphere.
I'll agree with you, but not in the way that you'll probably like. Science as a subject taught in schools is only a small section of what science actually is. The true breadth of what science is is anything that abides by the scientific method. If there are hypotheses being tested, then it can be called science. However, that means that almost everything ever is science. The science that you wish to put sociology under is a more exclusive branch of science that has more societal respect. Although I agree that all fields of study have their values, it is self-evident as to why STEM fields are the most respected. TLDR: Yes sociology is a science, but not in the way you want it to be
Zain Majeed Why should STEM be “the most respected” due Sociology being a more specific social science? Why would the study of human behavior & societal influences on it be less respected than examining cells under a microscope? I really don’t find it self-evident.
"Seeing the general in the particular, the strange in the familiar" Yup, just summed up "The Sociological Imagination" in a succinct, aphoristic sentence.
i look forward to the day when a comment section of AN EDUCATION VIDEO is filled with constructive debates and informative dialogues. we should be ashamed of ourselves..
There have been some good comments here leading to actual discussion. But it's RU-vid, you can't expect the trolls to stay under the bridge *all* the time. ;)
I'm always thinking about these things on an hourly basis and have finally decided to go back to school after a decade. I'll be majoring in Sociology. Thank you for the very informative video affirming that this is indeed where I'm meant to spend my creative energy, empathy and perspective. Very well done!
I see a lot of people saying that there is a strong liberal bias in sociology. A study that demonstrates the concept of institutionalized racism is not inherently liberal, it’s what people do with that information that’s liberal. And just because sociology demonstrates concepts that liberals use to create and support their positions doesn’t mean that a liberal bias is automatically the reason why, maybe it’s simply because the facts just tend to point people towards a liberal position, and to say that that should discredit the field of sociology is inherently a flawed way of thinking because that’s making the assumption that we can’t live in a world where facts support the liberal position and that the facts have to align with a centrist point of view (or a conservative one or it should 50/50 or something like that) which is ridiculous. The field of sociology is just like any other scientific field. It has measures put in place to address bias. Obviously it’s not going to perfect (since people aren’t perfect) but neither is any other field of science is perfect (since people aren’t perfect).
Am it the only one who sees more comments complaning about the bashing of sociology and hateful comments than actual comments bashing sociology and being hateful?
You have to go into the replies to see it. I’ve seen a ridiculous amount of comments saying Sociology is pseudo science simply because it’s not quantifiable in the exact same way in which mathematical equations are, though I could probably argue that’s false. The behavior of human beings in groups for example does generally follow certain observable patters, which you can repeat & observe over & over again. There are of course outliers just like in other types of scientific data. Most people I see who seem to enjoy hating on Sociology (often scientists in different fields or fans of others scientific fields) probably do so because they believe it’s too “liberal”, as it often examines issues of oppression & discrimination in our societies. I guess many of those who observe the world don’t like it when the lens is pointed back at them.
As a sociology student all the hate towards sociology is actually interesting in itself. I think it ties into a mix of people feeling like they don't have free will if their behaviour is explained and people not liking it when inequalities are pointed out. Course that's just a guess at this point haven't check the data on the subject yet.
Certainly a decent hypothesis. When I was taking a sociology course back in 2010 it didn't seem as hated. I think it's become more polarizing as the studies from it have been misused or misconstrued to fit political agendas. That and the ever widening divide over politics in America has caused the 'hate' of it to spread. Instead of getting mad at the misuse of the studies and information by the responsible parties, people get mad at the 'group' in general, lumping those who gathered the data in there.
Why are all the speakers at crash course so fast? Bro we here to learn and im sure you guys put this up to teach, please make it easy and make it understandable
What I get from this is that one specific behaviour can have many out side factors on why or where you get these behaviours, or everything you do is influenced by others around you (I don’t know I’m just kind of guessing?!?!?!?) ( please don’t judge)
Yeah, I noticed that she seems to conflate sociology with social anthropology. It's a shame because anthropology needs more attention than sociology in the public consciousness.
Seems to me social anthropology (but also ethnology) and sociology are quite similar nowadays. Not exactly, but quite. If you have an explanation why they really are different, let me know :)
I always thought sociology was just cultural anthropology with a different research method because, anthropology has ethnography and sociology has statistics. Maybe this series will help me understand what sociology is, the first video didn't really but i'm gonna keep watching.
The Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun is the founder of sociology . Five centuries later the first Western thinker appeared : French philosopher (Auguste Comte ) after reading Ibn Khaldun's books because of the emergence of social problems as a result of the French Revolution.
In theory, sociology is about the way things are, and cultural anthropology is about how they got that way, but in practice there's a huge amount of overlap.
First and foremost the methods. Sociology relies heavily on quantitative methods and researches on the big picture. Patterns and generalisations. While Cultural Anthropology looks for the small details and uses qualitative methods. CA is not about being totally representative, but how individuals or smaller groups see their reality.
+TheSuperhomosapien That's not true for all of Cultural Anthropology. I don't know the anglo-american tradition very well, but I can at least say they do research on contemporary topics. The same goes for the German and French School of CA. Although they are very different from each other coming from different traditions. What you mean is Folklore. Folklore is a one of the roots from which CA was created and does focuse on pre-industrial societies.
I love sociology!! I'm a college student majoring in sociology & I developed a huggggggeee passion for sociology my freshman year!! I love seeing videos like this & I love this channel(:
Sociology seems to have a left leaning bias if you look at it on the surface, but it doesn’t if you look deeper. A large facet of sociology is explaining social problems, their origins, and how these problems affect the individual in each area of their life. A large amount of conservative thought is to deny that social problems, like racism, still exist. We can prove with actual statistics due to sociology that these problems like racism show up in daily life. One of sociology’s goals is to make issues rise to the surface that conservatives would normally sweep under the rug.
Yeah, this is where I am. Sociology makes sense on the surface, and it can be scientific in its approach - but so many people use it to justify things which is does not speak to, or corrupt its data to serve a political purpose. People speak of it as though you can use logical induction to extrapolate from one case to the general case, & it tends to be used to oppress people while pretending there's a scientific basis for the discrimination, all in the name of equality & evening the odds where they're currently uneven. Applying the specific to the general or the general to the specific, or claiming that a trend implies willful actors intentionally causing it behind the scenes - it's easy for these to be the takeaway, when so often they're just a _very_ subjective misinterpretation of otherwise objective data. It makes it _really_ easy to dismiss sound logic out of hand depending on where or who it's coming from, & leads to a brand of tyranny both self-righteous and far more oppressive than that which it claims to rail against.
And just like that, this video made me FINALLY decide what I’m going to major in. Going from social psychology to sociology. THANK YOU SO MUCH! CANT WAIT TO CONTINUE MY STUDIES. Hopefully I can make a video like this one day. Just got out of the military society too lol
I like this series so far, but please post citations/links to the experiments and studies which highlight important sociological ideas that you discuss in your videos. This is to help shut up the idiots trying to argue and discredit sociology, but also gives those interested a more in-depth read into some of the important and famous sociological experiments.
Crash course thanx for this wonderful series, please also provide the script so that we can incorporate the ideas into our college notes. That would be a great help
I'am 15 and in year 10, i chose to study sociology for my gcse's. We are studying reasons for the decline of marriage at the moment. So here is a reason for the decline of marriage. Marriage is on the decrease. One reason for the decline of marriage is cohabitation. Cohabitation is the state of living together and having a sexual relationship without being married. Another reason is that marriage is too expensive. Many people might want to get married but because of their financial state they might not be able to. 34% of marriages are expected to end on a divorce by the end of the twentieth wedding anniversary 60% of marriages are expected to survive to the twentieth anniversary. 16% of marriages reach the sixtieth wedding anniversary The average marriage is expected to last for 32 years.
I understand what sociology is, but as someone who is much more well versed in psychology, I found myself thinking about commonly known psychological phenomena that somewhat explains some of the questions you posed. Is there a real way to discuss society (sociology) without discussing the individuals within that society (psychology)? Or, should I consider this relationship to be more, "Does the individual shape society or does society shape the individual?"
I think what would be helpful, for all of the people who have a knee-jerk response to sociology being not legitimate, is if this series really intensely describes the scientific vigor of any observations/experiments etc... that are discussed. How, like in Physics, Sociologists are constantly probing for the best, most accurate description of what people do, which has been my experience with the field. That way, people stop debating in the general about the value of sociology, and have to consider the scientific value of each individual finding as discussed. I dunno, maybe it wouldn't help or slow things down too much, but just an idea. What do you guys (Crash Course and the commentariat alike) think?
why are people in the comments here with their issues about sociology? WHY did you click on the video lmao?? anyways, these are super helpful because im studying for my sociology exam, thank you!
Congratulations, you made a series where people will cry about the content before watching it, proceed to watch it, then cry again. What a time to be alive.
Patterns? some patterns are obviated because pointing them out will make some people upset, so we are trying to move forward excluding certain pieces of information and hoping the models will work out at the end.
Guesses i can about the characteristics of most people who hate sociology: white, western, conservative, generally pessimistic. Reason: sociology exposes their privileged position in society and it threatens it. Thoughts?
I really hope you touch upon different cultures, and not just the Western neurotypical one. Because I can tell you, I raise my hand at the dinner table...
I am so thankful for this! I study at a prestigious Japanese University and most of the teachers here have a different mindset when teaching. In East Asia they expect students to teach themselves and the teacher are there just to judge. Attendance is often the most important part of the evaluation, and teachers don't care if students sleep and don't learn anything. As long as you're present. So I often don't learn much and waste a lot of time. Thanks to this video I can improve my sociology skills and hopefully be able to keep studying somewhere else in the future.
