{"id":134,"date":"2011-10-03T09:54:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T09:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/2011\/10\/03\/sociology-psychology-and-your-hand\/"},"modified":"2014-07-13T19:01:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T19:01:10","slug":"sociology-psychology-and-your-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/2011\/10\/03\/sociology-psychology-and-your-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociology, Psychology, and Your Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"full-image-block ssNonEditable\"><span><img src='https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/files\/2011\/10\/iStock_000003897487Small.jpg' alt='' \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the difference between sociology and psychology?\u201d is a question I\u2019m asked a lot.  \u201cOne is awesome,\u201d is my standard response.  I deftly refuse to clarify my response if asked.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve all heard the aphorism, \u201cwe all play the cards we\u2019re dealt.\u201d This pro-personal-responsibility turn of phrase is what I use to describe the interplay between individual choices and social forces and to answer the ever present soc\/psych question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we all play the cards we are dealt, then sociology asks, \u2018is the dealer crooked?\u2019\u201d I tell my students.  \u201cIn poker the deal is random, but are life chances dealt randomly?  Is there a pattern?  Are some players favored by the house with great hands time and again while others are constantly \u2018down on their luck\u2019? Personal responsibility is important, to be sure, but it can only tell us how you played your cards.  Sociologists want to know more about the dealer and the casino the game is played in.<\/p>\n<p>As to the separation of psych and soc, \u201cThere is a great deal of overlap between sociology and psychology.  However, if sociology focuses on the trends at casino and in the dealing of the cards, then psychology delves into how the player understands and plays their hand.\u201d  This is too simplistic, I tell my classes, but it helps to differentiate the two.  The demarkation holds at the lower levels of both disciplines, but as you learn more about either you\u2019ll find that they are cut from the same cloth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the difference between sociology and psychology?\u201d is a question I\u2019m asked a lot. \u201cOne is awesome,\u201d is my standard response. I deftly refuse to clarify my response if asked. We\u2019ve all heard the aphorism, \u201cwe all play the cards we\u2019re dealt.\u201d This pro-personal-responsibility turn of phrase is what I use to describe the interplay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1982,"featured_media":135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30623],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-is-sociology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/files\/2011\/10\/iStock_000003897487Small.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}