so why'd you choose such a loser course?

TELL US ABOUT THE BYSTANDER EFFECT AGAIN

But no really, uh, how about them exploding populations, eh?

Why are you a Communist?

And if you are one of the rare non-Commie sociofags, what is your opinion of Communism?

>>692146
I'm a statistics major. I just really like sociology.

>>692155
Actually, I've read estimates by the UN that predict the population growth will level off by 2050, and UN tends to make predictions on the radical side.

Lemme find the study for you, hold on.

>>692158
No, I am not a communist. I think studying and reading Marx is interesting, but his ideas are undeniably out of date.

>>692176
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/longrange2/WorldPop2300final.pdf

Here's the UN study I referred to.
>In these projections, world population peaks at
9.22 billion in 2075. Population therefore grows
slightly beyond the level of 8.92 billion projected for 2050 in the 2002 Revision, on which these projections are based. However, after reaching its
maximum, world population declines slightly and
then resumes increasing, slowly, to reach a level of 8.97 billion by 2300, not much different from
the projected 2050 figure.

>>692191
Failgreentext, but whatever.

How do we defeat Islam? I think banning circumcision would be a good start.

>>692223
Most research on assimilation suggests that 1st generation immigrants can never fully assimilate into a culture-- it takes three generations for an immigrant to fully assimilate into a culture.

>>692135
1. How did you became interested in sociology?

2. Why Marx's idea's are out of date?

Around my parts there's quite a bit of tension between the Natural Science Majors and the Social Science Majors. Something about social science majors not being rigorous enough.

How do you feel about this?

hey is my keyboard broken

>>692240
We want a gameplan for stopping Islam.

>>692265
Step 1:Bomb Mecca

Hell, why not include the jews?
Step 1: Bomb Mecca and Jerusalem

>>692265
>>692276
Will not work.

To stop Islam, let Muslims immigrate. As they're exposed to a wealth of information and different cultures, eventually it'll get to them.

>>692241
1. I think I became interested when I read some overviews on Durkheim's work on suicide in this shitty intro class I took. I went online and began to read a lot of Durkheim, and thought it was really amazing stuff. So I've done my own readings since, and I am sincerely interested in sociology. It's really amazing to make something that seems unsystematic predicable (conversation analysis = the shit)

2. His view on not only labor but class are very outdated. The core concepts of his work are very enduring, but if you read it at face value, then it's quite easy to tell what time period he wrote in.

But, Marx does have a dedicated fan base that has done a shitton of "modernization" on his original theories.

>>692251
I'm majoring in statistics for a reason :3. At the undergrad level, I do think that there isn't much rigor to a social science degree. Most of what I know is logical application of theories I've read about and my own research.

>>692265
Wait a few generations?

>>692287
See: Western Europe

Why don't we just kill off the retarded people(people with severe mental disabilities) who just cost tax dollars and do nothing else?

>>692289
Are there any laws that sociology produces. One that never fails to work, and results in clear, observable, repeatable patterns?

>>692318
OH SNAP

What practical use does sociology have when so much of it is politicised (beyond coming up with propoganda)? If it does have a practical use, then how is it any different from philosophy where you only need a few very good philosophers?

>>692302
Ethical and moral complications. That, and the care and treatment for those people provide jobs.

>>692318
That's a tough question.

The short answer: no.

The long answer, somewhat. A lot of the very, very analytical and rigorous paradigms and sub-discplines (like ethnomethodologists, demographers, conversation analysts) have defined processes that do show repeatable results (like pauses in conversations, applauding at certain points, population trends). There have been a great deal amount of ink spilled over how to systematically analysis a conversation; believe it or not, it's actually an insanely rigorous process (I can't give you details, as I've just read results from CA studies, and not these manuals of sort) But, a lot of the more anti-positivistic paradigms (like symbolic interactionism) are a lot less rigorous and have a lot more difficult time producing repeatable results, and these 'softer' parts of sociology tend to be the ones most people associate with the discipline.

>>692353
At the moment, the applications of sociology are somewhat limited. But, it is being pushed HEAVILY by many of the top sociology departments in the nation and a new practice in sociology has developed call "public sociology" to answer the question you've asked. If you are interested in a better answer to the question, go read the wiki and do a JSTOR search on Public Sociology.

How is Sociology can be connected to Government and Politics?

>>692362
>Ethics
>Morals

>>692287
Ask the UK how this one is working