Hello everyone, this time I will tell you about my career, the curriculum and what I would like to change about it.
Sociology is a career in decline, at least everyone knows the truth in that, the labor field is increasingly null, job opportunities are accompanied by precariousness or in the opposite case, are accompanied by dishonest activities and favors from acquaintances. In this field, the academy usually disfavors recent graduates, leaving them without support and adrift in a sea of job uncertainty. For example, if it turns out that the academy has taken pity on you because of your constant work and effort while you were studying, they may give you a space in the narrow labor field in exchange for demanding a series of publications with constant material that does not give the space for professionals to carry out more thorough research and for the results to be more profound and practical.
As a consequence, the phenomenon that has led the career to decline, there is an incessant production of invisible and unprofitable knowledge that fails to be disseminated at its maximum expression and does not serve any specific purpose other than to continue to articulate new theses that lead future generations to the same paradigm.
The curriculum contemplates the history of different periods such as classical and contemporary, the same applies to the branches of sociological theory, and also includes branches of statistics, qualitative and quantitative research, research methodology, political, economic and cultural sociology, social psychology, economics, English, etc. All these subjects are distributed by content and their relation with the basic knowledge to advance semester by semester. they are divided in 8 semesters and 2 of these belong to practical work and deepening so the career in total lasts 5 years (assuming that you do not drop any course and that you pass all the courses, however this is difficult, due to the little organization that exists within the faculty for the taking of courses.
On the other hand, the academic load and breaks seem to me to be super poorly managed, especially in the return to classes, last year in virtual classes, we obtained the privilege of a week of rest due to the use of computers and screens in excess, this benefit It was granted with some regularity, more or less every month and a half, and personally I was quite grateful for it, it gave me the time to catch up, study or read, or simply relax and lower my stress levels. On the other hand, with the experience of normal classes, the pressure and the lack of time are very demotivating. not everyone has the same rhythms and you can't give more than you give up. I think that one of the things to change would be the idea that the requirement has to do with the amount of work and not the quality of it.
To talk about methodology, I think it should be very particular, since each teacher has his or her method and conditions for granting knowledge. some are not fit to form in the best way since they fall into conservatism or sin of philistines. so each class is very different from another and there is no established order on teaching.
Regarding the use of technologies, I have very little to say and that is because I have not had experiences very close to these. however, the wifi is bad. it's supposed to have better coverage and it turns out it can't be used. on the other hand you do not have a good telephone signal, so even if you use your own resources it is difficult to access the internet.
and finally, the facilities, at least the ones I have seen, further dazzle a profound difference in terms of departments and income, so much so that there are very well-equipped and ultra-beautiful classrooms, but it does not have the capacity to teach hybrid classes. as well as there are abandoned buildings where mice and pigeons nest. there are rooms that flood and freeze with the cold.
And speaking of stocks, it is worth mentioning the non-existence such as the campus dining rooms, which have a very limited number of microwaves and the total lack of places to eat or sit down for lunch. the lack of roofs and warm places to shelter from the cold or rain or provide good shade in the summer. the lack of ventilation that forces us to die of heat in the summer or freeze in the winter
I sincerely love my career, although it may not seem so from all the criticism, but if I had an idea of how precarious it would become, I think I would have given up studying this career, I think I could perfectly learn it by myself at home
You are right, much of what you say are reasons for the recent shutdown and takeover that the campus experienced.
ResponderEliminarhello hellen, I couldn't agree more, universities in general strive for the useless goal of producing knowledge that everyone later forgets and that is more than repeated, as teacher Tijoux once said, there is a whole mafia behind the generation of papers
ResponderEliminarI really do not know why this blog is not in the paper for all chilenas to read... The truth is what you have said: Sociology is going more precarious time by time...
ResponderEliminarBut as you I love my career and I love it being with you.