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challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
I am SHOOKETH. Y'all, I don't know if this book blew my mind because it's the first sociology text I've ever read or because it's genuinely as mind-boggling as it felt for me while reading this. Published in 1973 (and yes of course some bits are dated, how could they not be) and still so relevant 40 years later.
For me, this was one of those books that found me exactly when I needed it to find me. It just gathered together all these little pieces of my thinking and (let's be real here) confusion and pulled it all together into a beautiful, though incomplete and rough, thread of understanding. The past few years of my life have been marked by an intensely unstable foundation of my worldviews and I've known for the past 2 of those at least that I've been in desperate need of re-stabilising some of them or risk completely falling apart.
The problem was I didn't know how to because I'd figured out how to turn my internal world into something dynamic and solid but I couldn't for the life of me seem to translate the skills I'd developed for my internal psychology across to how I exist in and relate to the external world.
Perhaps sociology is the next exciting and necessary new world for me to step into in order to finally get somewhere with that.
For me, this was one of those books that found me exactly when I needed it to find me. It just gathered together all these little pieces of my thinking and (let's be real here) confusion and pulled it all together into a beautiful, though incomplete and rough, thread of understanding. The past few years of my life have been marked by an intensely unstable foundation of my worldviews and I've known for the past 2 of those at least that I've been in desperate need of re-stabilising some of them or risk completely falling apart.
The problem was I didn't know how to because I'd figured out how to turn my internal world into something dynamic and solid but I couldn't for the life of me seem to translate the skills I'd developed for my internal psychology across to how I exist in and relate to the external world.
Perhaps sociology is the next exciting and necessary new world for me to step into in order to finally get somewhere with that.
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