SOCIOLOGY MAJORS ONLY!!!! (dropouts, current students, BAs, MAs, pHDs, Idk what a 2 year degree in sociology curriculum looks like — please just use good judgement on if this includes you or not) IF you’ve finished your 200/2000 level main course (the one where you start learning basic/historical sociological frames of analysis and writing, feminist theory, queer theory, race theory, materialism, etc.) Which of the following “bedrock” was your favorite to read about/study/use/write about?
Marxist theory/Das Kapital/Karl Marx
Bureaucracy/The Protestant Work Ethic/Max Weber
constructivism/Emile Durkheim
We were not taught these three as bedrock writers
Not applicable/Results
Note: this does NOT have to be the sociologist/writer you AGREE with the most — obviously this is the #marxism website — but the one you personally found the most interesting or enjoyed writing about the most.
I was always the odd one out in my sociology classes because I ADORED the constructivism lens I just thought it was a really fun way to analyze different writings and films (I ended up in a lot of sociology classes that liked to assign like. Film reports? That’s how I learned I hate film-based classes having to watch a film for a grade is so much worse than reading a book for a grade)
Yet most of my professors and other classmates treated Durkheim as the “hard” intro writer and the constructivism lens as the “hard” lens to write for even though I always found it the easiest to universally apply (because it’s just like. Social symbolism? A thing present in all forms of media related even tangentially to culture or human experiences? How is this not the easiest lens to use for every sociological “use 1-X lenses to analyze this story/article” assignment ever?)
ALSO: NOT including an “other” category because I want to keep this focused on these three in particular since, at least in the US, they are more or less taught as the first three “specific” or “initial” lenses of sociological analysis (which is why Marx isn’t my favorite because I got real sick of having to read the first section of Das Kapital the start of every semester since he it was ALWAYS assigned as a “warm up” in EVERY FUCKING CLASS)
