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supersheep:
--- Quote from: Peet on 27 Jul 2008, 12:48 ---I don't know about across the pond (the British and American university systems seem very different) but my brother has just graduated history and did a lot of the whys and wherefores and not much of the whens. I could get on with history if it was all "and then this happened in this year and then this guy did that" but apparently the higher studies of it are not much of that at all. There is a lot of opinions involved, which I find frankly abhorrent in a degree.
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The problem is, history is not fixed. My view on the Russian Revolution will be entirely different to Eric Hobsbawm's, which will be entirely different to Orlando Figes'. The enormous complexity of human interaction, the paucity of information, the lack of pretty much anything which comes from the working class/peasantry from before 1800, all this means that there are so many different interpretations of what went on that history without this it'd mean nothing. Far more important than what is why and how, and when is pretty much irrelevant except as a locator. Anything that tries to make out that history is fixed or resolute - like history books for secondary school - is lying or wrong.
evernew:
--- Quote from: Sam on 27 Jul 2008, 13:26 ---hard sciences are the bane of my existence.
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This.
I had neither sociology, psychology, history or anthropology at my school.
When I was on exchange, though, I sometimes sat in my friends' lectures (ancient philosophy, russian history, religion). Sober or not, they were usually highly enjoyable.
Hard sciences are for people who cannot get laid. Or don't want to.
To the beer thing: You'll have one staple beer after a few weeks. And it'll probably neither be horsepiss nor anything exquisite. Decent middle ground is good for your wallet AND your head.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: evernew on 27 Jul 2008, 14:06 ---Hard sciences are for people who cannot get laid. Or don't want to.
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Sorry, but that won't do as a description of me or any other scientists I knew. If you know people like that, it's just them, not the science!
ViolentDove:
I agree with Paul. Despite the fact that there is a slightly higher than average density of socially awkward/mildly insane people in my department, they're all still totally gettin' some action.
BrittanyMarie:
I'm a sociology major Sam! I like it a lot, only the problem is that sometimes it can be really fucking depressing. I made the mistake of taking Social Inequality, Minorities and Race Relations, Sociology of Sex Roles and Social Problems in one semester. I said the words "Matrix of Domination" every M-F for 4 months. I became that cynical asshole who decided that nothing I do will ever make any difference ever; those with power will always and forever take advantage of those with less power; that my ideals and morals and opinions are all wrong. Everything is gray, nothing is black and white and the world sucks. But I got over that pretty quickly once I realized how annoying that was.
The thing with soc though is that it piles on with everything, so it'll be applicable to a person studying history or ancient civilizations or psychology or marketing and mass media--any field that has anything to do with people.
It's tricky going from a straight up sociology perspective to the real world though. I come from a very research oriented background, so doing interviews, leading focus groups, doing studies etc., is a lot different in the "real world" (so far) than in school.
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