My Ethnography Essay

Sociology is all around us, and by looking closely at it you are able to see how it has a deeper impact and shapes our lives. Society today has become fast paced and very reliant on technology, which has resulted in people's lives changing and how we live them. I am greatly interested in whether or not our lives our becoming too modernised and if technology continues to expand in the way that it has been will there be a need for human skill and labour, as even the agricultural industry has become modernised with a whole farm being run by machines.
There is an increased demand today for certain aspects in people's lives to be fast, this could include a person's internet connection to the time it takes for person's food to be made. I feel that
History has allowed me to gain further knowledge of past events that have clearly impacted society, for example the welfare system came out of the Second World War and it is still widely used and relied upon today whilst also causing great controversy. Writing essays is a main part of history and from that I have been able to gain the skill of writing from two points of view. Being able to select relative pieces of evidence is a skill that I have acquired from English Literature. Whilst studying novels from different time periods and different genres I find that my interest in sociology has flourished. While reading 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, I began to question what society would really be like without authoritative figures around and whether or not people's morality would change. In philosophy and ethics I have gained the skill of being able to criticise an argument as well as being able to find the strengths in it. On this course I have obtained the knowledge of where people think that morality comes from and whether or not it is innate in us. Not only have these subjects helped me to expand upon my essay writing skills, they have also allowed me to look closely at sociology from the past, present and what it could be like in the