Skills in Sociology.

Well, like you must know, I study Sociology. In my career, you don’t need an inborn skill, I think, but you have to read a lot, so you have comprehension of lecture, and, of course, you must love read!
However, there are some skills that you should learn studying sociology. First, you must have “sociological imagination”, like Mills says. That is the skill of see a social reality and finds there some sociological problem. For other hand, you must have a skill to relate the ideas of different authors, so I believe that good memory can help you with that, but is not necessary; if you have it, some much better, but if you don`t, it´s Ok. Is not like studying art without knowing who to paint!
My University is providing to his students of these skills, but I think that develop the “sociological imagination” and the skill to relate ideas, are qualities that you can acquire with practice. With all the research that the career make you to do, and with all the courses of Sociological Theory, I think that the students developed all this skills.
For that reason, I don´t think that we need to change our course in my career. Well, obviously I´m interesting in particulars themes, like Sociology of Religion, for example, Latin American Sociology or Sadistic process. But in general, for the skills that I mentioned before, I think that we are very well.
I´m prepared to work? I don´t know actually! But I have a knowledge that I want to apply!

My Notebook!

My relation with technology is not very closed! I used, of course, but I always have problems with all kind of tehonogic object. However, if I have to choose my favourite piece of techologic, I think that I opted for my notebook.

Last year I worked in a research for Catholic University, so I could save some money and bought it! I used all the time, for things related with my career, with my work, and for my free time too. I have it since laste year, and I really care about it. Never put it pen drives if I´m not shure about his source, and don´t used for download music or movies. And, of couse, I keep it clean! I like it because it´s mine! I choose it, I bought it and I used! I don´t have to share the PC with my sister.

Since I bought it, my life became easier! I don´t have to wait until my sister finish her work, and she always download thinks, so the old PC that we usted to share, was with virus all the time! Now, I can do my thinks without think in finish early, and I can use my free time in internet with no problem. And, of course, can I choose without problems the picture on the screen!

So, for all this reasons, my favourite piece of technology is my notebook, but like I said, technology and I don´t have a very good relation.

Temuco!

Since 2007, my first year in University, I was not traveled away from my home in Rancagua in holidays, at least with my family. I went to Pichilemu last vacations with my friends, but is not a beautiful place actually, and I wasn´t visited a lot either. But in 2006, I went with my family to Temuco, because a family member (is like a second degree causing of my mother, but in my mom`s family, we are all very closed) got married. We went in car, and my dad drive the entire road. It was a great trip!
My mom is from Temuco, so she was like our tourist guide, with an aunt and others members of Porath family. We visited de Central Market and ate the greatest cheese that I ever tasted! We visited a museum too, the “National Museum of Rail-worker Pablo Nerura”. There, all the family went with us ´cause my grandfather use to work driving trains (he died at 2005), so was very moving.
We also visited Caburgua Lake (on the picture), Pucón, Villarica, and all that awesome places. I loved it! My mom always told me how beautiful was that places, and finally in 2006 I could be there.
I liked Temuco and all the places around it, not just for the natural beauty; it was a familiar atmosphere! My family and I want to go there again.

Classic! A great Sociologist

Well, today I´m going to right about a classic sociologist. I respect his work, and was the firth author that I liked. His name is Emile Durkheim, and all the science community of sociology field agrees that he is one of the greatest minds of our time.
He was born is France at 1858 and died in France too in 1917. During his career, he wrote a lot of book, articles, chronics and ethnographies. He found the first review about Sociology, with that he motivated too many intellectuals to know more about this new discipline.
His most important works are “The Rules of Sociological Method”, “The elementary forms of the Religious Life”, and “Division of Labor in Society”, or “The Suicide” for name a few. In “The Rules…”, he suggest a way to know the social facts; he said that social fact has to be studied like things. This phrase was, and still is, very polemical, but he gets things straight: social facts are NOT things, but have a cause and a consequence. For that reason, is so much better for us, sociologists, investigated it like things.
His theory about moderns’ societies is based on mechanic and organic solidarity: that is the difference between a traditional or modern society. He is one of “The fathers of Sociology”, and the only one of them who says that his work was Sociology!

PS: Here is a photo of Durkheim, and a photo of a puzzle!!! Why? Is the way I see organic solidarity… Maybe sociologist understands me! :P