ASSIGNMENT SAMPLE
Sociology - academic science or applicative science in the service of society? Let's start with the sincere, brief confession of a sociologist: "Sociologists are often in an unenviable position when they have to explain exactly what they are doing. When they ask me, I usually say: I'm a sociologist. It provides me with a conversation with another person. When I do not want to talk, I just say: - I'm giving up at the NY State University, or I'm saying - I'm a professor, or - I'm doing research. But, often, comes the question - what do you teach? And again I'm left to think fast and satisfying, if not meaningful, answer. One time, my four-year-old niece visited my family for the first time. She wanted to see my office. I showed it to her - books, chairs, table, accessories. Then she said - show me what you are doing when you do. You can imagine her excitement. But from that experience I did not learn anything. So a few years later, when the teacher's son asked the parents to come and describe what they were doing, he agreed to volunteer. The other fathers were already in attendance. One was the mayor, the second carpenter, and the third soldier. The reactions of the children were great judging by the desire of my son to appear. I'm just lucky. After all, how often do we get the opportunity to present sociology to children attending second grade? When I did not really impress them, I told them I was a professor at the faculty. That, of course, sounded very similar to being a school teacher, worse than being a sociologist. Finally, desperate to preserve the child's dignity and social standing among peers, I asked them if they wanted to look in the briefcase of a sociologist. They jumped from the chair and gathered around the table. My son breathed. Then, in my office at the university, my cousin visited me from abroad. We have not been seen since childhood.Â
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