The objective prespective

To be sociologically mindful, or a sociologist for that matter, don't you have to be open minded?
Wouldn't it be rather pointless to read someone else's theories knowing that you're going to not really think it through? It wouldn't even count to study another's theory, because you rejected it from the begining, and if you do that, we could lose what could or might've been a great discovery, an answer to your or someone else's questions. Now that would be a bummer.

Sociological Mindfulness

"Children often see things with amazing clarity because their minds are fresh and the world is new and wondorous to them. A child's mindfulness, however, is indescriminate, as if one kind of grasp
can get hold of everything. As adults we learn to be mindful in ways that suit the things we encounter" - Michael Schwalbe, "Sociological Mindfulness"

I know that we all just talked about this in class today, but do you actually believe that as we get older, that we become less sociologically mindful, less observant, or just think less deeply? When we were asked if we thought about things such as "why did this happen?" "Why/ how did we end up where we are now?" most of us had raised our hands. To me, that was not a big shocker. We are teenagers, that is a fact, we are young and always questioning almost all of the things about the world around us. What would've been a better way to "experiment" or test Schwalbe's theory would be to ask that question to some adults, are they sociologically mindful? Do they sometimes pose the same questions that we do? What is their definition of being socially observant? How deeply do they observe the others around them?

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