SY101 Lecture 1: Sociology Chapter 1
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Yorick is a character sort in hamlet. He used to amuse hamlet as a child, using an old friend"s skull, which initiates hamlet to reflect on what we all come to, (death) This implicates yoricks dilemma and indeed the dilemma of all thinking people, that life is finite. It clarifies your place in society, and how you can manoeuver through it. Sociology, opens a new superior way of comprehending the world. Sociology can make you realize you"ve taken things for granted. To some people, physical and emotional forces cause bad things to happen to people and the world, but after looking into sociological reasons, things change, Famine; caused by drought, war or territorial greed. Sociology also challenges people to understand the unique way of explaining life, and the fact that there isn"t just one reason for why something happens, or that it"s not just as easy as it seems.
