Dear Discojoe, read my story below, try to understand it, it might help you avoid the mistakes I made, mistakes that made me waste 20 years of my life.
In high school I made straight A's for subjects like history and geography, but in those days (first half of the 80ties), I allowed myself to be influenced by the anti-leftist sentiment of the day, and decided to focus on science subjects (physics, mathematics, biology and chemistry), so I could go to polytechnic and have a career that made money. (ETA: my grades with these subjects were barely sufficient to get me in uni, and in fact, wouldn't get me in polytechnic today).
In 1987, at age 21, after two years of fruitless study at the dept. of Civil Engineering at the University of Delft, I was kicked out for a lack of result. The student counselor sent me to an organization that tested student for vocational advise, and the results were that I'd better study sociology, political science or political administration At the time, I was very much under the influence of libertarian ideas, mainly those of Ayn Rand, and against these 'leftist pussy' social sciences, with an attitude very similar to what you have written above here. I decided to ignore the advise, and try Business Administration instead. After one year that didn't turn out successful either, I started to work for a living, and between age 23 and age 40, I hopped from one job to another, sometimes making a lot of money, but never really making a career. Finally, around 2005/2006 I broke down and went in therapy, which in total lasted just over three years. One of the many things I struggled with, was how to make sense of my life and how to give it meaning and purpose. It was not until last February that I bought an introductory book on sociology, which I read in one go. When I was finished reading it, I burst into tears, because I realized my stupid mistakes which made me waste so many precious years (tears are streaming from my eyes as I'm writing this right now), years I could have spent doing things that were closer to the heart for me, wasted because I had stupidly convinced myself of many bullshit ideas (there's reasons for that too, but they are not important for this discussion).
I myself have decided, at age 44, to correct an error I shouldn't have made in the first place: I am going to study sociology next year, in fact, I have already begun reading sociology books, even though I realize I will probably not have a career in sociology like people who started studying it at age 20. And what I found out is that people like Karl Marx, despite their gross errors and unrealistic solutions, in fact did have original insights that had impact on the world and made it a bit of a better place. If you really take the time to learn about sociology, you will not only learn that many sociologists of stature (De Tocqueville, Comte, Marx, Spencer, Durkheim etc.) have provided pieces of the puzzle, but also that all these ideas fits nicely into socionic types, e,g, they can be explained as rationalizations of quadra values. From the perspective of Socionics alone, classical sociologist are interesting to read about. If you're interested, I'd warmly recommend this title to you:
Amazon.com: Classical Sociological Theory (9780078026652): George… (an older 2nd hand version will also do).
I would like to give you the following recommendation: don't be the idiot I was and waste years of your life. Be open (but critical) to anything you right now have biased opinions about. However, if you want to hang on to your current ideas about sociology, that is, of course, your prerogative, and I will have no hard feelings, and I hope life will work out for you anyway.
Sociology is nonsense.
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