When I think about possible changes or reforms that my career should undergo, I first think about the quantitative-qualitative dichotomy, a major contradiction. It is common to enter the world of research, whatever it may be, and to be confronted with the methodological bifurcation that weighs on the research paradigms; immediately the aim is to eliminate the dichotomy in the first semesters, but later in the career, the specific subjects exacerbate the disjunctive, giving special priority to the focus of the field.
This is the contradiction, an empty effort to destroy the idea that quantitative and qualitative are mutually exclusive, and then proceed to teach the opposite. Really, it's just a question I don't understand about the race and I think it doesn't make a lot of sense. It's certainly something that could be done better, I don't know exactly in what way, but it could be.
Another thing I would change, are the absurd amounts of academic load (of any career in any educational establishment). I guess in my head does not enter (or is not supported) the idea of having to subject the student to excessive workloads; placing them under limit conditions. Surely there are teaching methodologies, educational program designs and a host of other tools that could contribute to lessen overwork without sacrificing results in practice, and perhaps it is not done just because there is a universalized notion of effort-better proportionality (or maybe just not).
In more technical and specific matters, it would be interesting for the academy to be closer to the statistical programs that are most commonly used in the labor field. If it is known that in the working world, the vast majority of sociologists work with the new program A, it is a little absurd to teach the old program B. These kinds of things, which are hardly considerable only as a useful reform to the system, allow a large number of graduates to be less competent in the areas most in demand in the market that those people once longed to destroy. Although there are undoubtedly more factors influencing the unemployment of sociologist graduates.
Another of the many things I would do with the career would be to include material from other latitudes and contexts less addressed. Dissident authors and/or from other latitudes; that more value be placed on knowledge produced outside the philistine standards of academia.
To top it off, I would put cigarette butt bottles all over campus until I accumulated an absurd amount of eco-bricks that could be used for something "good".
hello dorian, i very much agree with you when you talk about the invisible line that separates quantitative and qualitative sociology since in the end both are combined, there really isn't much difference between them
ResponderBorrarhe is really right about all these things, even though when seen on their own they seem to be tiny things, they have an incredible power when accumulated and developed simultaneously.
ResponderBorrarI really don´t know why your not one of the persons who are doing the sociology program, your ideas are awesome.
ResponderBorrarSpecifically the idea of studying sociology by working with the thing we would "most commonly used in the labor field" I find fascinating.
Good blog!
The last paragraph is me
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