Blogging through Invitation to Sociology (2020)

Human is a social animal, and the reason why we cooperate is because doing so is usually synergistic. It creates more benefit for less cost and makes our lives easier and better.   Cooperation is important besause if we have to live in a society, we cannot do many things without cooperating with other societal members. It allows people and groups to work together to achieve a common goal or derive mutual benefits. Cooperation exists at many levels and takes place between individuals and organizations as well as between states and countries. Cooperation allows participants to exchange valuable information that helps both sides improve their knowledge bases and work in a time- and resource-efficient manner.

I’ve never thought that globalization would stop or collapse at all, because the world was becoming more and more active in communicating via internet. I thought there will be no way to stop it before a world war occurs. However, this belief was shook when COVID-19 started to spread worldwide. It is actually collapsing now in many ways. Coronavirus has disrupted global value chains that connect producers across multiple countries. We can’t go abroad easily since there are danger of infection everywhere. The internet is still connecting everyone worldwide, but I think that globalization can be slowed down and get in trouble if this continues.

In my opinion, God is portrayed as a male because ‘he’ has to be a strong feature who can protect human. God created the world and fights with evil, which can be a little rough work for a traditional female image. I believe the old stereotype of gender took a role in bible. Also, the rulers who used religion as a tool wanted to portray god as a man. In many other religions, there are gods who are women but those religions are not as popular as christianity. In the past, there were only men in the governing classes and they wanted women to stay in family life. If you look at the bible, Holy mother Maria is portraying exactly what the desirable quality of women should be except that she’s a virgin forever. Christianity had a huge relevance with politics, so I believe God had to be a man for benefit.

Valentine’s day has commodified love into something material such as restaurants, jewellery, flowers, lingerie, alcohol, and cards. However, I don’t believe that we can value love or project real love. It is a sweet gesture to exchange a simple, low-price gift, but we don’t need to spend a lot of money to ‘prove’ that we love someone because it only benefits the related businesses. Relationships, courtship to use an old-fashioned word, should not be confined to a single day but should be celebrated every day and this celebration does not have to involve the commodification of relationships through acts of consumption.

I believe that 3D printing will change the world. Since 3D printing service reduces the time and effort of the manufacturer to create, much more emphasis can be done on the research and design of a product. The manufacturers can invest their time in making a better product as the production time is reduced. Different tests can be conducted before the actual product is manufactured. 3D printing leads to a reduction of wastes and thus, there is no requirement of reducing, reusing, and recycling the waste materials. Therefore, it will benefit the industry that ultimately benefits society by either producing quality products or reducing the price of the products or both.

Fashion changes because people change what they like. It’s based on mood or personal preference, and that can change based on any number of factors. The other theory is that trends are started and ended by the fashion industry, which makes millions off of people who think they need to be wearing the “latest” thing, no matter how silly or short-lived it might be. Trends are short lived styles that are often fun or rather extreme fashion statements. However, classics are elegant staples and styles that rarely change and look good no matter what other “trends” are going on.