002 Why sociology and how it is useful?
2017/10/15 9:14
I started studying sociology in 1964 as a student of Tunghai University, majoring in sociology, after a season of changing in my life. I would address the series of changes in another posting later.
Sociology, a new-found field to me, caught my attention and interest at the first sight in college days.
I remember how I was struck when I learned that Comte, a physicist, was the founder of such field early in the course of Introduction to Sociology, a required course for all the sociology major.
The course was taught by Mr. Ju-chi Hsi, who was a scholar born and educated in China and went to finish his college degree in Taiwan. He was awarded the scholarship for studying abroad with public (governmental) fund in the year of 1955 according to this webpage published.
I did not know anything about the name Comte before that first sociology class in my life. It opened my mind to realize that every new field of knowledge is started by someone from other fields. Later, I came up with a generalization that in every field of profession the least qualified person with the least knowledge of that field was the founder of the field. This is very encouraging to me, especially after I was immersed in the PHD study of social work research and learned that I was expected to break through with a new field, no matter how small that field is, that I start.
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The Founders of Sociology
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides/sociology/the-sociological-perspective/the-founders-of-sociology
I started studying sociology in 1964 as a student of Tunghai University, majoring in sociology, after a season of changing in my life. I would address the series of changes in another posting later.
Sociology, a new-found field to me, caught my attention and interest at the first sight in college days.
I remember how I was struck when I learned that Comte, a physicist, was the founder of such field early in the course of Introduction to Sociology, a required course for all the sociology major.
The course was taught by Mr. Ju-chi Hsi, who was a scholar born and educated in China and went to finish his college degree in Taiwan. He was awarded the scholarship for studying abroad with public (governmental) fund in the year of 1955 according to this webpage published.
I did not know anything about the name Comte before that first sociology class in my life. It opened my mind to realize that every new field of knowledge is started by someone from other fields. Later, I came up with a generalization that in every field of profession the least qualified person with the least knowledge of that field was the founder of the field. This is very encouraging to me, especially after I was immersed in the PHD study of social work research and learned that I was expected to break through with a new field, no matter how small that field is, that I start.
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The Founders of Sociology
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides/sociology/the-sociological-perspective/the-founders-of-sociology
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