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Originally Posted by Haaziq
Agreed. 
For the record, I'm starting college next year. Political science/sociology major. |
Nice... I was picking up on some level of study/interest in the way you approached that topic. Social sciences in general are still very dynamic fields, so I figured at best I'd clarify us both in agreement, and if wrong I'd hear the latest take on the definition/context of some terms.
I was a Psych/Bus-IS major myself. Most people would order those in reverse, but I personally prefer the Passion/Practicality arrangement.
In line with psychology, my elective coursework was inundated with sociology, political science, and philosophy. (I'd've sold myself short if it'd gone any other way. You know those stereotypes about psych. majors? In my case, it was true. Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, [and of course, Jung] were some of the best studies that ever happened to me.)
My passion for psychology is into counseling and mediation, so I'm not a particularly big fan of the concrete turn that social science academia has taken. I prefer the abstract aspects of the discipline, but am appreciative of what the concrete aspects have to offer. Much of the humane state is measureable and worth exploring, but I prefer to explore the less measureable.
I really love the way that perspective flourishes in open discussion (hence finding these forums
very entertaining!), and am pretty
laissez faire until I see prejudice/stereotypes and the fear they breed. Those are the only things that still put my hackles on end, if you will, and rekindle my youthful angst. Haven't quite found peace with that particular facet of my psyche, as it were. That can put me down a few levels pretty quickly. It's hard to come to terms with forms of ignorance that lead to violence and discrimination, but I admire those who have the understanding of themselves and compassion for others to take even that in stride.
As far as I'm concerned, politics are a lot like the psyche. A lot of variety comes to exist because every idea is right in some ways and wrong in others, selfish in some ways and altruistic in others. All ways of thinking/feeling are common sense to someone and nonsense to someone else.
In the case of this thread, I can see how the pitbull image portrayed by the media has generated a lot of understandable anxiety (as I said before, to fear/lash out beyond sublimation for the safety of one's children is a noble instinct, but it can have dangerous repercussions when all rationale is abandoned and the aggression is displaced to a more generalized medium); still (and on that paranthetical note), at the base of the issue, a breed cannot be blamed for its involvement in individual instances. There is still too much variation in character from dog to dog. What has resulted in some cases is a travesty, but to illegitimize the entire breed would be an atrocity.
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