Final Blog...

Guys, it has come to our last blog post together... So, lets all try to get a few wisdom in our brains...  Yes, it's important for social scientists to find ways to connect with public audience. It's important for social scientists to find ways to connect with public audience because the public needs to be aware on a lot of social issues! For example, when the topic is about civil rights and about black people earning the same equal rights as whites and let me tell you people can be so ignorant about this topic... Most people believe that black people should not receive the same equal rights as white and will tend to make memes about black people not doing anything for themselves... See, this is where the social scientist can step in and provide the public information and facts about the reasoning behind "black people not doing anything" If the public was more aware about the topic, the public would want to help instead of criticizing....

Social scientists should make the social research accessible and relevant to the public discourse because technology is advancing! Nobody is going to listen to the news anymore. People would rather turn to Facebook or Twitter faster and would help out quicker than hearing it from the news.... It's important for social scientists to practice public sociology in terms of their research questions and designs because it would have the research more credible and would have people more interested in the topic...The research topic could be about abortion and the design could be having a open ended interview where the interviewee could express themselves about the topic instead of answering questions back to back(SOOO BORINGG) and a person wouldn't  be able to put themselves in the other person's shoes, which is important! If you want somebody to care about the topic that you are presenting or you care about the most, you definitely want to make it seem personal, credible and eye- opening!

This class (Sociology 475) was very useful to me in many ways.First, it had allowed me to research about a topic that is near and dear to my heart (poverty). Second, it had allowed me to educate others(like what I'm doing right now) about poverty and the seriousness about it if nothing is being done to at least reduce poverty. Lastly, it taught me the importance of public sociology and how if we(society) do not educate others or let others know about the things that is going on in the world, then the world would continuing to deteriorate and the future generations would have to suffer because of the lack of knowledge that society does not have.... 
                                          Thanks for reading, I hope you learned something and want to take action.
                                                                                                                    - Anikka :)