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I've recently pondered upon this question after learning about Talcott Parsons a bit, and I wanted to ask to others this question as well. Maybe it went out of fashion and I am an old man that can't keep up with the kids, but I do see this term being used by the youth in my country. It could be of positive effect if the recipient is engaging in harmful methods of thinking i.e. rumination. But, could it eventually introduce a stigma towards thinking as a whole? As the term's broad enough to warrant a use in anything. I did experience some of this. When I were an adolescent, I always focused on the negative side of things to prevent them from happening. When I had told these to my mother, she had always said that I was "inviting the bad". When I ceased thinking on the negative thing however, it always happened and I felt like I was the scapegoat.

Why could it be the case? A decline in education could be an answer albeit an easy one. Could we draw a connection to mass politics for example?

Hi, I had actually done some research and read some papers about it in the past but I've recently came across a video on YouTube where a girl was documenting the things she ate and the sheer variety and the complexity of them left me with disgust. That's why I thought I had to find a solid answer to this question.

For context, I am very likely (unable to get professionally diagnosed) type III hyperlexic and I get borderline scores in a variety of reputed self-assessment autism tests.

My meals during the day tend to not exceed four (morning,midday,mid-afternoon,dinner.) For morning I almost always only eat omelette and can't stand any other food. For midday and dinner I opt for meat with either fries or rice on the side (what I exactly eat varies) for mid-afternoon I drink plain coffee and an equally plain dessert. I dislike stews and have trouble eating anything not homogenous in appearance or livid green. I am constantly trying to introduce more foods into my diets, I know it's probably too restrictive.

I do like crunchy and spicy foods, which seems to correlate with high openness-to-experience (mine is 94) I also possess 86 conscientousness according to the Big 5 if it helps.

Based on these, What could a "plain palate" mean? My mıther thinks that it means I know what I want. I think I'm a boring person.

hello, apologies for posting a question probably googleable. I will hopefully be a first year sociology student this academic year. the curriculum is inspired by the american tradition however (at least that's what they are called here) and I will also get cultural anthropology knowledge as a result. that and because I haven't narrowed down my interest to a single discipline (which I don't know if it's a bad thing) is why I want to learn about cultural anthropology as well. I've recently wondered what's legal anthropology, what is it and what are some introductory texts I can read about it? thanks to everyone in advance.

after spending a good chunk of my life i have arrived at a summer school programme which I think I display reasonable interest in. but it has some prerequisities I am skeptical that I fulfill. they are, quoting,

"Interest in project-oriented and practice-based learning formats" "Willingness to actively participate in group work, including interdisciplinary teamwork"

I am getting therapy and I reached to the point where I can LARP as a mentally well person as long as I get breaks between bouts of face-to-face social activity. But I do wonder if these are enough, I had never been good at group work and the project style it entailed. My last attempt didn't end well, I very quickly became a useless person in a group environment; people couldn't bear me any longer and I subsequently failed the class. This was when I was in survival mode however so pre-therapy. I don't think I have much, if any, alternatives. My social skills and boundary-setting skills are questionable and I fear that I will relapse if I'm too pressured on these. Is trying out too risky? Can I brute-force through my social ineptness through displaying passion? Or should I just write to the organizers for accomodations?

preferably i am looking for something beyond those listed at summerschoolsineurope.eu. I couldn't find anything there. I am interested in law, communication, anything social science, philosophy, architecture. though i am willing to forego such criterias as i am in a desperate state.

Hi, I've had to temporarily move back to my family house after an illness. But I don't enjoy my father's company. He's an alcoholic that has not allowed me to rest and dragged me to the hospital with fever despite already going to it in the morning. He regularly yells at people and treats my mother and other people harshly. And they do not take care of me emotionally. I had no emotional support at all during adolescence and since (in fact my therapist is the only person in my life that is emotionally available.) I really want to be an independent person, but for that I've to wait at least two years. I've made so much progress with my therapist in the past 9~ months. I'm afraid of losing sight of myself once again. I don't have much in terms of a support structure and I don't know if it will be overwhelmed by the things which will unfold. I don't want my mother's abuse-excusing behavior to live inside my head again and blame myself for everything. I want to stay a person, to continue to stay on good terms with myself. whom I have learned is after all the most ideal type of friend I could have and the one that could largely fulfill my need to be social by itself.

how can I survive or if possible thrive in this time period? I do have some freedom during day but none during night (which is also the time when everything goes wrong)

besides summerschoolsineurope.eu ? I couldn't find anything of interest there, so I wondered if there were more obscure resources.

I had wondered an historian's perspective on this hence opening this thread.

I had wondered an historian's perspective on this hence opening this thread.

Hi, I've had to temporarily move back to my family house after an illness. But I don't enjoy my father's company. He's an alcoholic that has not allowed me to rest and dragged me to the hospital with fever despite already going to it in the morning. He regularly yells at people and treats my mother harshly. I really want to be an independent person, but for that I've to wait at least two years. I've made so much progress with my therapist in the past 9~ months. I'm afraid of losing sight of myself once again. I don't have much in terms of a support structure and I don't know if it will be overwhelmed by the things which will unfold. I don't want my mother's abuse-excusing behavior to live inside my head again and blame myself for everything. I want to stay a person, to continue to stay on good terms with myself. whom I have learned is after all the most ideal type of friend I could have and the one that could largely fulfill my need to be social.

how can I survive or if possible thrive in this time period? I do have some freedom during day but none during night.

Hello, I've recently been recommended to try out this approach. I've reviewed it and thought I could try doing it personally. I currently take weekly psychodinamic psychotherapy and my therapist had said that anything not psychotherapy could be used in tandem if I remember correctly. Though, I haven't found a solid source on what category IFS is besides it being a form of psychotherapy. Judging from this IFS doesn't seem like something I should attempt, but out of curiosity what are the differences between both?

I’ve recently noticed that whilst I can do art, it only comes to me if I really want to do it. Being asked by others or being demanded by external factors usually results in me rehashing a previous work or just doing nothing. In fact, I think that a large part of my brain is shut off to outsiders, which could also be why I’m very secretive of my inner world and why my brain overall functions like a semi-closed loop. Yeah, I’ve AVPD and that can be an explanation but I don’t think that’s a full explanation as I remember that I was also like this pre-AVPD. I also had at times severely struggled with being a one-dimensional caricature in high school if it’s related.

Why could this be? Could it be because of my desire to appear as an average person?

Hi, I will hopefully start my Sociology studies at my university. I've read and read about the field(s) and even got some ideas for what I could accomplish as Masters. I know that it's probably not right to decide on things from the first year but I’ve grown allergic to indecisiveness after I have spent four years of my life in identity confusion and depression episodes.

I'm quite interested in Environmental Psychology in particular. Other than that, other internally highly ranking interests of mine are in Sociology of Education, Vocational Psychology (I haven't looked into I-O Psychology in depth yet,) Architecture broadly and Urban Planning/Design in particular, Urban Sociology, Quantitative Sociology, Legal Sociology.

My Holland Code is CSR. Would majoring in both be too overlapping? I am a bit hung up on whether to double-major with IR instead.

I hope this is not a silly question to ask. Have a nice day.

bunun türkiyeye özgü bir sorun olmadığını biliyorum fakat subda bu korkuyla yönetildiğini düşündüğüm insanlar bulunuyor. bunun dışında "okuduğum alanda iş yapamam" da oldukça yaygın. önce bu "okuduğum alanda iş yapamam" hakkında konuşayım. çünkü şöyle, okuduğunuz şey sadece iş için kullanılabilecek bir şey değil. bunu bir hobide, başkasına anlatmada, hayata bakış açınızı geliştirmede yahut başka bir alanla birleştirip kullanablirsiniz. teoride 3 harfli kasiyerliğinde dahi kullanabilirsiniz. mesela eğer sosyoloji mezunuysanız yahut üniversitede sosyolojiden ders almışsanız kasaya bakarken karşınıza çıkacak insanların eğitim seviyesini, sosyoekonomik durumu gibi şeyleri ölçebilirsiniz. bir de zihnen çok kasmayan bir işte çalışıp hobilerinizin üzerine düşünmeye yahut başka şeylere zihninizi ayırabilirsiniz. mesela einstein izafiyet teorisini yanlış hatırlamıyorsam telgrafla alakalı bir işte buldu (bulamadım şimdi) hatta iş sonunda maaş alınacak bir şeyden ibaret değildir diye düşünüyorum. iş,gerçekten ucu açık bir tanıma sahip. mesela donald super'ın "yaşam süresi, yaşam alanı" kuramına göre bize bir anlam yahut gaye sağlayan ve bizi geliştiren herhangi bir etkinlik "iş" tanımına girebilir. kariyeri bir ömür boyunca devam eden,iç içe geçmiş,birbirine bağlı rol dizisi der. dolayısıyla okuduğunuz alanı anlamlandırmak için dışarıdan bunu ölçecek yahut gösterecek bir şeye gerek yok. zaten sizi içeriden etkileyecek çünkü.

iş bulamam korkusuyla hemşirelik, tıp seçilmesi yerine ausbildung gibi şeyler bence daha makul; direkt iş hayatına atılırsınız üniversiteyle uğraşmak yerine. lakin ne okursanız okuyan iş bulamam korkusuna kapılmayın. özellikle temel-sosyal-beşeri bilimler seçenler bundan korkmamalı bence. çünkü dört sene sonra mezun olacaksınız. şimdinin iş dünyasına atılmıyorsunuz. o dört senede torpildir diğer fakültelerden derstir gibi şeylerle kendinizi geliştirmenizi öneririm. insan hayatta kalma modundan çıkınca yaşar. ya da ben öyle hissettim. 19'umda yaşım geri 0'a gitti gibi hissediyorum.

bunu da ayrı bir parenteze alayım: ne yapacağınıza şimdiden karar vermek zorunda değilsiniz.

önceden meslek dallarını deneyenler hariç hiç kimse 18'inde ne yapacağına dair oturmuş bir fikire sahip değil. olmak zorunda da değil. kariyer statik bir yol hele hiç değil. dolayısıyla bölüm seçiminde hata yapabilirim demek, yatay geçiş diye bir şey olmadığını unutmamak gerekli bence. ben kendimden örnek verecek olursam şahsen böyle bir hatayı yaptım. 18'imde ailem sözelden derece yapmışsın diyip beni rts'ye zorladı. rts'nin gerektirdiği insandan çok farklı biri olduğumu öğrendim. bir sene ara verdim yükseköğretime bu insanın tam olarak kim olduğunu öğrenmek için. sonra geri döndüm farklı bir bölüm altında. tabii bunu yapmak için bir sene ara vermeye gerek yok ara vermek benim son çaremdi. bundan ötürü bölümden ziyade üniversite seçmek daha mantıklı geliyor bana. çünkü istisnalar haricinde iyi yahut orta-düzey üniversitelerin genel olarak hep belirli bir standardı vardır bölümlerde. "kötü" üniversitelerin öyle bir standardı yoktur. mesela mühendisliklerde sağlam hocalar vardır sb'de psikoloji harici bölümler akademik kariyeri boyunca bu üniversiteden çıkmamış hocalara sahip olabilir. yani anlatmak istediğim eğer siz iyi bir üniversitede yanlış bölüm seçtiğinizi fark ederseniz paçayı aynı şeyi kötü üniversitede fark edenden çok daha kolay, iyi bir şekilde kurtarırsınız. bir de her üniversitenin sunduğu sosyal sermaye aynı değil. bu sosyal sermaye torpil dışında şeylere de yarıyor, arkadaşlık yeni hobiler edinmek gibi.

velhasılıkelam biraz aydınlatmak istedim. umarım iyi yazmışımdır.

onun dışında kararsızsanız holland mesleki tercih envanteri'ne bir göz atın, sonucuna göre sorun soruşturun derim: https://testanket.com/uygulamalar/holland_meslek_tercih_envanteri.html

Apologies if this comes off as bragging, but I don't know of any other community I can post this to.

To go off of DSM-5 specifically, I feel like I am a lot more assertive in very close relationships. last year I viewed myself as inferior in all aspects but now I feel only socially inept. I even had moments of feeling superior to others because I am very close to knowing what I want to do in higher education. And from AMPD, I don't have anhedonia (though I'm still struggling with showing empathy) and I even show interest in things. I now willingly withdraw instead of never withdrawing due to a fear of loneliness.

All of these are progresses compared to last year, yes. But how can I know if they are lasting progresses? How can I know if I will lose all of this progress if I manage to get into a friendship? How can I know I won't lose all agency and be clingy yet again?

I would appreciate all help.

Hello to all. I've recently ran into a pressing dilemma. I am an undergrad and one that can be called a "young adult" despite not feeling like one. I've all but switched towards my current university's Sociology dept., but I'm very unhappy from the rectorate of the university and the Sociology dept. alongside a few others seems to me like it's on a timebomb as it got closed to student admission (I will be among the last to enter this dept.) I have partial scholarship in this school.

Now, I've recently learned that I can attend Psychology at one of the best universities (academic, networking etc.) in my country. I can't attend Sociology directly there for my higher education institutions exam score is not enough for that. I can switch to the Sociology there in second year via keeping my grades high there though. Their Psychology curriculum does get into Neuroscience starting from second year which I dislike. I also am biased towards it's Sociology curriculum due to it making Quantitative Sociology a required part whereas in my current university that's relegated to an optional elective.

In all my life so far, I was funneled towards wacky and dead-end degrees because I was an inferior person that couldn't do maths. Nobody understood why. But, I remembered statistics felt good to do. Statistics is the important kind of math in Social Sciences. So I started to get lessons on Statistics and other fields of math, on my own volition. This is I think the very important part and could be called character development. No force could make me love maths previously but I now enjoy statistics a lot. And, I am a very conscientious person if the data is to be believed (first letter in my Holland Code is C, my Conscientousness in the Big 5 is 86.) I also tried out R a bit using tutorials and such. I enjoyed those as well. So doing Quantitative Sociology or Psychology (I do want to get into Psychometrics) seems like something that's appropriate to who I am and what I want to do. My current university's sociology curriculum places too much emphasis on Qualitative, which whilst I like is something that I think I can get bored of. I can enter the prestigious university with partial scholarship if my letter of intent succeeds.

Hence the title. I love both fields equally. But Psychology has important parts I don't like vs. Sociology where the things I don't like are just Gender Studies which seems to be avoidable. I also like the worldview Sociology has. But I want to get into applied fields, and Sociology doesn't offer much in that regard besides Politics and Urban Planning or Design (Architecture if to be broad.) In Psychology there is a lot more applied fields I would want to dabble in and I have strong interests in certain fields (Vocational, Developmental, Environmental to name the strongest.) I can take these as courses from Sociology in my current university. I will ask around at the prestigious university. A potential downside of the prestigious university is that it lacks an Architecture department entirely and thus stuff like Environmental Psych or Urban Planning doesn't exist. In my current university an Architecture department exists and these areas I had mentioned can be taken as lessons. For Vocational Psychology, my current university requires me to do I-O Psychology masters there to take it's lesson but in the prestigious university it can be taken at the undergrad level as long as I pass the core Psychology lesson. Developmental Psychology is a thing in both.

I had thought of doing a minor on PoliSci as well. In my current university PoliSci and IR is combined to one degree. In the prestigious university there is only IR.

So what should I do? My current university is a mid-tier at best whilst said university is a top-tier and with a small number of students. This is an important part because my mental development was severely stunted at adolescence and the culture shock of a big university where everyone is indifferent to each other or living in their own bubble is something I'm still trying to cope with. Having a smaller number of people (and those which are rich in social capital) would do wonders at making up for my limited social abilities. I will visit there next week hopefully to see it with my own two eyes as well.

I hope this is not long. Have a nice day.

Hi, I hope this is the appropriate sub. I was going to study Sociology but I found an opportunity for Psychology instead in a quite prestigious place with equally prestigious academia. If I don't like it I can switch to Sociology there instead by keeping my grades high which I would try doing regardless of if I switch or not. I love them both equally and my goal in higher education is to learn and explore myself so I'm not much concerned about job opportunities etc. I'm greatly interested in being an interdisciplinary person, an reneissance man even. I want to call myself a social scientist, it currently seems to be the ultimate adjective I can take on.

But I had thought I was going to Sociology up until now so I am not sure if Psychology is something I'm cut for despite my interest.

I have interest in both's applied and academic fields. I'm not really interested in academia though maybe the future gives me something to do in academia. I was thinking of going into the applied fields post-graduation for now. I think both (Psychology and Sociology) reflect who I am and want to be. But the problem with Psychology is that I am not interested in neuroscience or anything that touches on the brain and not the person itself at all. And the curriculum of that school's Psychology gets into these topics starting from second-year. I don't have a concrete career plan, I want to try out the fields I am interested in and learn as much as is possible for me during education and post-graduation picking a Masters according to these fields afterwards. I do really want to get into Environmental Psychology though, I can say that's the most formed idea/desire I have. But I don't know if this is doable with a Sociology background. I really want to do things intersecting with Architecture or Urban Planning or Urban Design for at least some period of time. I want to do this through Social Sciences as a whole instead of being directly within those fields. Though, I also am greatly interested in Sociology of Education (but not in it's Psychology variant) and I do want to get into politics as well if possible. Whilst the option to double-major is a thing, I don't want to double-major in both Sociology and Psychology. I don't see much point.

Do these two things present a conflict?

I want to know if the best course of action for me is to switch to Sociology in second-year. Or is there something else I can do? My Holland Code's CSR.