Have you had a good semester?

Have you had a good semester?

Hello, everyone!! I hope you enjoyed last post. Thanks for your comments! Today I'm going to write about this semester: the good and the bad things, my achievements and the subjects I’ve enjoyed and hated.

This semester has been good: I’ve made many researches, learnt a lot about sociology and other interest, like dancing, of which I took many seminars.

The good things that have happened are many: I won a scholarship to dance classes and seminars, I got a good job as a waitress and a dancer, and I’m planning a lot of new projects for this summer. Besides, I traveled to a beautiful place: Washington D.C.

Well, I also had situations that have not been so good, such a lack of time, because I have much to study and researches to do.

Two of my biggest achievements were winning the scolarship whit three magnificent teachers: Julio Rojas, Isabel and José Barrera. The other was my research with Claudio, one of my English classmates, about  Yungay neighborhood and inmigrants, wich we wil continue next semester.

That research is for a subject called Qualitative Technique, one of the funniest subjects I’ve had. I also enjoyed Statistics IV, because I really like to work with SPSS, an statistics program. On the other hand, I really hated Rural Sociology. It’s so boring! And professors teach more about anthropology than sociology.

I hoped you enjoyed this post. Thank you all. Have a nice weekend and a good end of semester.

Chicago school of Sociology

Hello, everyone! I hope that you have enjoyed my last post. Today I'm going to write about the Chicago school of sociology.

The Chicago School of Sociology emerged during de 20s and 30s, and specialized in urban sociology (that is kind of sociological study of life and human interaction in metropolitan areas like ghettos, cities, etc.) and the research into the urban environment. For this, the Chicago School of Sociology used theory and etnographic fieldwork in Chicago.

After World War II, many researchers rised up a "Second Chicago School": this members of the new school used, like a base for research, the symbolic interacionism combined wiht methods of field research, like the etnography.

Some of the more important researchers of this school are Robert Park, Louis Wirth, Everett Hughes, George herbert Mead and Frederic Thrasher.

The social studies theme can be divided in three lines: Culture contact and conflict, Ethnic groups and City politics.

The first one, Culture contact and conflict, studies the way how ethnic groups interact and compete in the process of community succession and institucional transformation. One of the more important studies is Thomas and Znaniecki's one, published in 1918, that talks about polish inmigrant in the United State. An important part of this studies concerned African Americans, like Frazier (1932) and Drake and Cayton (1945) studies, that shaped white americans perception of black communities for decades.

The second one, are studies about ethcnic groups. The more important are: Cressey (1932) that studied the dancehall and comercialized entertainment services, Kincheloe (1938) that studied church succession, Janowitz (1952) that made his resarch about community press and Hughes (1979) studied the real state board.

The third one is about city politics. Themore important studies are from Gosnell (1935), Wilson (1960) and Grimshaw (1992) that considered american politics, voting and other forms of participation. Banfield and Wilson (1963) placed Chicago city plitics in a broaded context.

Thanks to all my readers :)

A photograph I like

Hello, everyone! I hope that you have enjoyed my last post. Today I'm going to write about a photograph I like.

This photograph was taken by a friend, Felipe. In this photograph I'm with my best friend, Beatriz. We were on Colca Valley, near Arequipa, in Peru. This photograph was taken at the beginning of our trip to Peru and Bolivia, in mid-January. We were taking a trekking for all the valley, we took two days to cross it.

I really like this photograph, because it reminds me of the trip I did with my group of  friends. Also, I remembered the people we met, with which I still maintain contact, the places we knew. It was a very cool summer. Besides, this photo is important to me, because was our second trip to the outside, five years ago we went to brazil, and it's good to take the "official photo" of the trip. I want to have many more trips like that.