My ideal Job

I have thought on my ideal job many times, and in my thoughts are different aspects that I consider to be relevant, for example, that lets me have an independent way of live, and with this I’m referring that my life must not be tied to the work, to do the activities that I’ll want to do.

I hope I find a job that let me work in the social area, and no on marketing or superficial or trivial things, because I know that I can’t change the world, but I would like to do some changes or At least to denounce aspects that will be unjust to me, and to promote any type of solution.

I think that I will be good in a job like that because always I`ve interested in those themes, but I know that exist a very important aspect to consider in the moment to execute my work and that the results are the awaited ones: To be recognized in the area of investigation for the specific projects that I should realize. For this reason I must be constant, because I know that to be recognized I must to work hard, and to be acquiring experience and skills in the way. For example, to develop my sociological intuition to identify conflicts and the ways necessary to solve them, and to do that I must be able to handle all kinds of technologies of analysis of information, both quantitative and qualitative.

The difficult of find this kind of job are develop those skills to recognized and knows how to adapt my times to make my way of life and my work compatible.

"Do Schools Kill Creativity"

In the conference of Ken Robinson he talks about how the educational system of the hall world truncates the imagination and creativity of children.
He defined creative like the capacity of having original ideas that have value more often, to make interact different disciplinary ways of seeing things. He says that because in the modernity, people is not prepared to be wrong, and for that reason they not give them de space necessary to creativity, and those it is what inculcates the educational system. That´s way kids have become frightened of being wrong, and have lost the capacity of let their been for their imagination. In other words, adults are educating kids out of their creative capacities.
Every education system has the same hierarchy of subjects. “At the top are mathematic and languages, then humanities and at the bottom are the arts.
On this logic, public education it´s focused on produce university professors, who lives in their heads, and they´re disembodied, which is too bad to the creativity.
The hierarchy of the educational system has become rooted on two ideas: The first one is produce the most useful subjects for work, and the second is academic ability, which comes to dominate our view of intelligence.
If we promote this traditional way of education that makes strip mine the earth for our particular commodity, in a few years it won´t serve us anymore. For this reason we must redefine the fundamental principles of education to change this situation.

Qualitative techniques

During the career I have had a lots of different subjects, and at the beginning those was very general and no so related with the career. For that reason, in the first year I didn´t like sociology very much, but I decided gave it a second opportunity and wait to know how were the subjects that would come later.

Now, in the third year, I have subjects more specifics about sociology, and I think that my favourite one it is “Qualitative techniques”, and it´s given by Klaudio Duarte.

I like it because consist of learn how to work with people to get valuable information of a particular theme, and it gives you the tools to work with different techniques of analysis to apprehend underlying phenomena to the obvious things.

On this semester on particular (in the second level of this subject: qualitative techniques II), I´ve learned these techniques: analysis of content, structural analysis of speech and based theory.

And this is my favourite subject.

The future...

Well… to start I think five years it is not too much time to say that in that period I’ll have my resolved life.. I think the life it´s a continuous process that it never ends.

In five years from now, I hope I be able to live in my own house, or rent a house in a nice neighborhood. I would like to live with friends or with my boyfriend and do anything I want to do. I think this it´s my real goal: to do what I would like to do at any time. With this I refer to my professional and social life… for example get the best job to me; earn my own money to be able to travel where ever I want, meet my friends and family etc.

Principally, I would like to be happy, to be consent to my life, but not only in five years, but rather at all time of my life.

Maybe in more time, I´ll have my own family, or maybe not… that kind of things will be seen in the way of life…

Hello everyone, on this post I`m going to talk about one of the most important authors among sociologists, his name is Jürguen Habermas.
He is a theoretical German who developed a very interesting theory about communication in relation to the sociocultural evolution, named “Theory of the communicative action”. I chose this author because I like his theory and I think that the sociocultural evolution it is rules for its principals. Those are that the organizational universal principles of societies are relationed with the communication, because throw it people can get to the consensus and on that way get solutions to systemicly’s problems.
The reasons for which this theory seems important to me, it’s because it belongs applicable to all the societies, and simultaneously it’s capable of explaining why some problems are not able to be solved inside the same logic of the theory.
In brief, Habermas is without a doubt one of the best authors in the field, because of his many contributions to sociology.

My Career: Sociology

How you know, I’m studying sociology. The reason why I chose this career is that always I have worried for social matters, and I though that this career would help me to understand the phenomena that are called me the attention, and the sociologists understanding the phenomena can act and take measurements with regard to them. On this way, sociologist can contribute to society creating programs overcoming of the poverty, public policies to improve the living conditions that the current social order provide etc.
There are many necessary conditions to a sociologist could really act, for example, you should have power, a good job, recognition in the means or win a fondecyt, otherwise is very difficult to obtain financing or space of action that is taken in bill. Any way, there are many tools that a professional of society must know to use it. For example, a sociologist must know how to use the imagination to investigate problems record in the society that must be solved. Then, it`s necessary to know how understand the sociological theory about this problem to crate a investigative project. Then, you must create a good instrument of work like surveys that should answer the questions of your investigation. Another very important tool that a professional sociologist must know how to use is SPSS or other stadistic program to work with the databases that are compiled of the surveys.

My favorite subject is qualitative techniques, because it`s not about just numbers and numbers, but rather about working with people, and that it`s very important to me…

And that`s about my career in general terms…

Baru Island

Hi everyone!

I chose this photo because I like it very much, in it you can see a beautiful beach, with white sand, big palm trees and a exquisite turquoise sea where you can swim and swim for hours on end without getting tired.
This place is called “Playa blanca”, and it`s on “Isla Barú”, near Cartagena de Indias, and I went there with my boyfriend, (you know him, the “lucky ducky”).

The photo was taken in the last days of my vacation. I decided to take it because I wanted to remember that place for ever. The beach it very solitary, there are few tourists and most of the people you see are locals. This is the best place in the world to take a rest to me. We slept outdoor on hammocks on the sand near the sea, and it was really nice experience, because you can hear the waves while you sleep and see the dark sky with bright stars on it at midnight.

All these things makes this place a truly magical place to rest and enjoy, and if you can, you must visit it and you`ll never regret it.