Sociology Reaction Apper 1
1 Lhakpa Ghale Sociology 220 Section 419 Summer 2015 Intellectual Odyssey with Neil Smelser
This video focuses on Neil Smelser’s background, on being a sociologist, on being a psychoanalyst, ambivalence, cultural trauma and terrorism. He is a University professor Emeritus of Sociology at UC Berkeley and former Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences. Smelser draws together studies of diverse topics and puts them under a single powerful concept.
According to the interview, Smelser seem to have a great interest with how “self identity” is acquired and how people begin to develop into their own person, being a sociologist you have to treat your own and people’s lives experiences as objects for studies. And how these experiences enhance our lives and provide us with dignity and meaning. He is also a psychoanalyst who has highlighted the role of effect. In the interview he also turns his attention to the topic of terrorism with valuable results.
In my opinion Neil Smelser provides an integrative approach that includes history, interesting facts and explanations and put’s things in perspective for us to see how we are connected to everything to understand better the meaning of sociology. I also thought it was
This video focuses on Neil Smelser’s background, on being a sociologist, on being a psychoanalyst, ambivalence, cultural trauma and terrorism. He is a University professor Emeritus of Sociology at UC Berkeley and former Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences. Smelser draws together studies of diverse topics and puts them under a single powerful concept.
According to the interview, Smelser seem to have a great interest with how “self identity” is acquired and how people begin to develop into their own person, being a sociologist you have to treat your own and people’s lives experiences as objects for studies. And how these experiences enhance our lives and provide us with dignity and meaning. He is also a psychoanalyst who has highlighted the role of effect. In the interview he also turns his attention to the topic of terrorism with valuable results.
In my opinion Neil Smelser provides an integrative approach that includes history, interesting facts and explanations and put’s things in perspective for us to see how we are connected to everything to understand better the meaning of sociology. I also thought it was