The amount of knowledge that I already had on many of these topics and the countless number of conversations that I have had with family, friends and co-workers, some of whom shared the same sentiment and opinions while others did not.

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As I read the question, I thought about the amount of knowledge that I already had on many of these topics and the countless number of conversations that I have had with family, friends and co-workers, some of whom shared the same sentiment and opinions while others did not. I guess the reason for that is because many diverse groups of people in the United States experience situations that others don’t or differently than others do. It reminds me of the video I watched from lesson 1, What is Sociology?, it mentions social location which helped me understand why groups of people think the way they do. It depends where they grew up, the kind of culture they live in and what they learned and experienced there.

 I will say, however, that I learned to apply that knowledge onto the socialistic perspective of this course. Moving forward, I think that it will be interesting how I apply a specific social problem to a social theory such as structural-functionalism, symbolic interactionism and conflict theory. I enjoyed the comparison of the function of society and institutions to the human form. Meaning how we need every part of our body in order to function and society is made up of different institutions to function as well, such as government and law enforcement agencies, hospitals, schools etc. Overall, I enjoyed our discussions on these different social topics and this course.