Thursday, February 5, 2009
Sociological Mindfulness
I felt today was exhausting in sociology! the article we all read had to do with this idea of sociological mindfulness and all though its great that everyone got to voice their opinions about it i felt we were in some kind of debate class instead of a soc class! i know there was a lot of people in our class who thought wow there is no way the whole world can become like this but that to me is not what the article is asking us to do! today our class was being the opposite of sociological mindful, we were trying to prove or disprove this idea! i never thought about how the social world was created by people or how social life consists of patterns wintin patterns and this article was something that got me thinking, made me want to be more of an aware person of the people around me! i hope other people feel the same!
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I totally agree. While some people made valid points about no one can change the world by being mindfull, it had nothing to do with the point of the article. The point was that just by being mindfull one person can make a slight change for the better in the world. People over think sometimes.
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i felt the same way! yes i love getting into deep conversations in class and it can get interesting with what people have to say but i definitely feel that we started to get way off the topic of what shwabe was trying to say. the article definitely reminded me of the movie Pay It Forward and i think its sending the same message. we all don't need to make a drastic change in our lives to have the world become a better place. we all can just do small things like either smiling at someone in the hall or opening the door for someone.
ReplyDeleteYes - we did, but isn't that the great thing about the blog? So many students got to express their thoughts so the class discussion gets to go on! But I think you are right about Schwalbe not asking for the world to change, he is just saying that we can each make small changes in how we see the world.
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