Everyone’s daily life could not be lived by themselves since most of what we do is related the society. Your behavior, thinking, and feeling all depend on the environment, culture, religion, politics of society at that time. The broader society can obviously constrains an individual’s behavior. We can’t do certain things without society’s permission. You think that your personal behavior never bothers others but sometimes that’s totally wrong; you are always doing things that impact others or society at large. Prostitutes and their men think they are just doing a business deal and think they are not affecting other people. But this is a serious crime violation and is usually not allowed in a country. Although the society forces people to behave in a certain way, the study of society’s culture and beliefs are important and very useful for everyone’s daily life. So studying sociology can be personally valuable.
Studying sociology is important for different members in society to live in harmony. “People who feel no temptation before closed the doors, who have no curiosity about human beings, who are content to admire scenery without wondering about the people who live in those house on the other side of that river, should probably also stay away from sociology.” (Invitation to Sociology, Peter Berger, pg .3) In his article, Berger points out people who don’t pay attention to other people and only personal actions never care about others. He says studying sociology is very useful to help you improve yourself. As a result, people will like you more and you will be welcome with others. From his article, I learned how to regulate personal behavior and don’t let others abominate it is very useful to me and I know I will use to myself daily life.
Besides personal behavior can impact whole society it can also violate the law, it would be very serious issue and force your action to stop or get punishment. “If I attempt to violate the rules of law they react against me so as to forestall my action.” (What is a Social Fact?, Emile Durkheim, pg. 1). Durkheim says if the personal action is against the law and you will pay the penalty of what you did or you will get irreparable harm in life. This punishment will cause your normal life to become messy and you will never do it again. From Durkheim, I learned we have to restrict our actions to follow the law from social society to make society more peaceful. Therefore, I learned this lesson applies for my personal life. I think about if I offend the law my family will be in shame and I won’t want to be in this situation in my life.
In addition, studying sociology can give us a better understanding of mankind and how to cope with the life’s problems and apply to personal lives or help others lives. Through several readings from these two weeks of sociology, I learned why we need to study sociology and how sociologists use the appropriate method to study in the right way. Nowadays people feel being trapped in their personal lives. When their society has major changes, their personal lives change. The rules of the sociological method can affect social fact from the external to the individual. Personal acting, thinking and feeling are never separate with society. The sociologist’s interest in societies, their institutions, their history, their personal situation is a passion. A sociologist is curious about all parts of society even the ones that everyone else dislikes. What we studied, I believe is true and immediately useful to my life. Thus, I think sociology is a huge value to my life.
From above we observe it is very clear studying sociology is very useful for everyone’s life since sociology gives us insight about human beings real everyday lives. You may still doubt its value or are confused on some part of sociology. As I studied the sociology I have very positive outlook for society so this subject is useful for my life and think it will be useful for everyone else. Since many of us are from different backgrounds, cultures and countries, sociology is an important tool to bridge our differences and make society more harmonious.
education will change me 