{"id":34,"date":"2018-01-31T12:26:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T17:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2022-kputnam\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2022-05-20T13:54:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T17:54:58","slug":"log-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2022-kputnam\/data-collection-logs\/log-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress Notes: Week 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I played around with making TikToks. I have learned how to add cover pages (this is important to help organize videos on our homepage and standard for popular accounts), how to add captions (important for accessibility, though unavailable for pre-recorded sounds), music syncing, and basic editing features. Next<\/span> I will try to record our actual content.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I also wrote a script for the first video \u201cintro to our channel + what is sociology\u201d and for \u201cwhat is the sociological imagination\u201d. I attempted to record the first drafts of each of these videos. They are bad and I have concluded we will need to think more about the aesthetics of video making. Many videos I have seen look \u201cunpolished\u201d, but achieving this effect takes a lot of work (editing, lighting, background, and multiple takes for smooth flow)! I also learned that a 1-minute video should include no more than about 150 words (assuming you\u2019re talking pretty much straight through). Condensing information has been more challenging than anticipated. The next steps will include making another script and thinking about visuals we might want for these videos. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Intro to our channel + What is sociology?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hey friends!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m Katie,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m Kyle and we\u2019re making this channel to help break down some sociology for you. Sociology theory is dense and not exactly always the most fun to read. We\u2019re both a few weeks away from finishing sociology degrees and we still struggle with it sometimes. So we\u2019re attempting to make it short and easy to understand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So let\u2019s talk sociology!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hey Katie? What is sociology?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Basically, sociology is the study of social behavior. And since pretty much everything people do is social behavior (even things you do alone), there\u2019s a LOT that falls in the realm of sociology. It includes answers to things as small as why do you stop at a red traffic light or as big as why do nations crumble?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sociologists study everything from families to states, from petty crime to systems of education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But at the end of the day, sociologists are answering one basic question: Why humans be doing that?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Sociological Imagination ~~~potential issue~~~ this already has enough words for 1 min, so need to work in examples better.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have you ever thought about how your life fits into the bigger picture? Congrats you\u2019re using the sociological imagination.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1959 C. Wright Mills wrote, \u201cthe sociological imagination\u201d which is still considered a foundational text for the field of sociology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mills makes the distinction between \u201cpersonal troubles\u201d and \u201cpublic issues\u201d. Mills talks about troubles and issues generally as negative things, but they don\u2019t necessarily need to be bad.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Personal troubles are what\u2019s happening in <\/span>your<\/b> life specifically. Could also include the people around you, but it\u2019s basically the things that are directly affecting you. Public issues on the other hand are the wider society level trends. We\u2019re talking about public opinion, systemic oppression, the national debt. These bigger picture things that aren’t really about any one person specifically but affect everybody. Mills says that you can’t understand society without understanding individuals and you can’t understand individuals without understanding the context of their society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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