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The Upstream podcast touches on this with this week’s episode about Health Communism. I’m still being astonished by how much Capitalism influences every aspect of our lives. It’s like, I think I know, then something shows me I don’t.
This is why sociology is so important and needs to be recognized as an integral part of education and how we understand the world. It goes without saying that we live in an excessively individualistic culture, and that causes us to be in denial about how much these larger social factors affect us. We are all trained to see ourselves as singular instead of part of communities, populations, groups, and to see institutions as singular entities instead of parts of larger structures that make up a greater, overarching system that's connected to and that perpetuates the issues we face as individuals.
Unfortunately sociology is pretty much the definition of what conservatives are fighting against in education and the "culture wars": Understanding the experiences of oppressed groups and finding solutions to probems on a social level. So of course it's not well respected or well known. I have to explain my major every time I bring it up and someone assumes I'm a social worker. The more we understand how our society works, the better equipped we will be to change it.
Have you met any conservative sociologists? I can’t imagine studying sociology and coming out the other side with a hierarchical mindset.