Activism/Acadmia/ Social Scientist .. Blog Post #2

Hey Y'all !  It time to express the sociological thoughts of Swaggy!!! After reading the collection of articles, the articles that caught my attention were "why academia and activism does not mix", "How Academics Can Become Relevant." "How Sociologist Made Themselves Irrelevant." Reading the first article I believe that academia and activism does mix. I feel like that without academia, which is the knowledge acquired, there can be no activism. Having academia can give you the topics or interest of what activist you want to become. They are both equally important in my opinion because they can help to better understand human and society. The difficulty involving both is educating the public in a sense that. Sociologist have become irrelevant in some sort which makes it difficult for them to educate the public. it will require a lot of attention seeking and much power on their side. Thinking sociologically can help with our everyday lives. Activism is said to be about the promoting of social change (Fabiorojas,2013) and since the point of activism is to bring about change I feel like academics can help with change because of the knowledge you may receive with academics in order to help with activism.

When trying to educate the public on sociological issues, sociologist tend to face roadblocks. One roadblock faced among social scientist are the fact that they can be biased. Most of the information a social scientist may present might include a lot of personal opinions which will have several audiences question why they should acquire the information coming from a social scientist. Social science should influence both debate and policy but more policy in my opinion.  It should influence debate that way the opinions of social scientist can be put out there which may help with the education of some people it just may not be guaranteed that you may win a lot of brains to think like a social scientist  but it should influence public policy because I think it would have a stronger outreach to the public in the knowledge of sociology and it could get many audiences to hear social scientists out. When it comes to anything social related in our world it would only make sense that social scientist would most likely have the answers to the "why" and "how" certain social concerns are happening and it might take time for other individuals to see it which is what  I think C. Wright Mills would say. Having a debate about this issue is not necessarily a bad thing but I feel like to a certain extent it is understood that without sociology we as human would not understand the cause and effect that happens in society and social scientist have the answers.

And that is all folks! Till next time on Swaggy Sociological Thoughts!!! 

Citations:

Jurgenson, Nathan. "How Academics Can Become Relevant." Cypborology. Retrieved September 12, 2017. (https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/01/23/how-academics-can-become-relevant/). 


Rojas, Rubio. "why activism and academia don't mix." Orgtheory. Retrieved September 12, 2017. (https://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/why-activism-and-academia-dont-mix/).

 Anon. 2014. “How Sociologists Made Themselves Irrelevant.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved September 11, 2017 (http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Sociologists-Made/150249/).