Tuesday, September 1, 2009

lists 2

journalism: "All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level." -William Bernbach

social science: made up of the sub-groups Anthropology, Economics, Education, Geography, History, Law, Linguistics, Political Science, Psychology, Social Work, and Sociology.

anthropology: the study of human beings, everywhere and throughout time.

cultural anthropology (wiki): One of the earliest articulations of ... "culture" came from Sir Edward Tylor who write on the first page of his 1897 book: "Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society."

sociology(wiki): a broad discipline in terms of both methodology and subject matter. Its traditional focuses have included social relations, social stratification, social interaction, religion, culture, and deviance, and its approaches have included both qualitative and quantitative research techniques.

english: "I want to do something splendid, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I think I shall write books." -Louisa May Alcott


Why isn't there a major that says: change the people around you. Make people happy, make your community positive. encourage people to do what they want, talk to people until they feel better. care. spread thoughts and words and quotes and suggestions and advice little by little. why can't a major say, 'it's the little things' or 'it all starts with you' or even 'go out there and just do it'. these are the things I want to learn.
Or maybe I'm getting a little carried away. maybe all I really want is for someone, somewhere to tell me that I can study how to be a good person, and how to make people smile.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

you can. It's in everything.

Life's for livin' child, can't you see?