Mill's article described everyone was under control of government which caused a social problem. I agree with his point, middle or low class people seems like they have right for vote or something else under the law, actually they just usually doing things under the law or under what government says. They don't have enough time or power to argue about social problems what people involves. Therefore, everyone has a social problem but also under control.
From the beginning of this chapter, author mentioned, "sociology is an academic discipline, and attempt to seek knowledge and understanding through painstaking and critical investigation,"(pg3) I totally agree with that, because even in our personal life, we seek knowledge by research and forward investigation to get a conclusion. Everyone in the society is human being, especially in the United State, everyone has their own lifestyle, culture, and religion, etc. As a result, people will think differently to a same question, it's difficult to figure truth or false. According to the book, "the truth and falsehood of any idea must be measured against a neutral standard, some acceptable measuring stick that prevents people from simply believing something because it "feels good" or it agrees with what they already believe,"(pg7) that's why we have rational and empirical proof; in fact, in my point of view, I always rather believe what I already believe even I was wrong. Society is interesting, everyone belong to it and have different points of view for a same question, and some people make survey on it to get a statistic proof, even so people still rather to believe what they already believe.
In this chapter, author gave us a lot of examples of how statistic is important in society in our life. For example, sociologist always give the suicide, divorce or obesity rate of in a certain year to warn or make a concept in people's mind in society. In conclusion, I get to know sociology is useful to my life, it give me a lot of information from the society, and it 's good to me for study.
From the beginning of this chapter, author mentioned, "sociology is an academic discipline, and attempt to seek knowledge and understanding through painstaking and critical investigation,"(pg3) I totally agree with that, because even in our personal life, we seek knowledge by research and forward investigation to get a conclusion. Everyone in the society is human being, especially in the United State, everyone has their own lifestyle, culture, and religion, etc. As a result, people will think differently to a same question, it's difficult to figure truth or false. According to the book, "the truth and falsehood of any idea must be measured against a neutral standard, some acceptable measuring stick that prevents people from simply believing something because it "feels good" or it agrees with what they already believe,"(pg7) that's why we have rational and empirical proof; in fact, in my point of view, I always rather believe what I already believe even I was wrong. Society is interesting, everyone belong to it and have different points of view for a same question, and some people make survey on it to get a statistic proof, even so people still rather to believe what they already believe.
In this chapter, author gave us a lot of examples of how statistic is important in society in our life. For example, sociologist always give the suicide, divorce or obesity rate of in a certain year to warn or make a concept in people's mind in society. In conclusion, I get to know sociology is useful to my life, it give me a lot of information from the society, and it 's good to me for study.
