10 Things Sociologists Stop Consuming

10 Things Sociologists Stop Consuming

After becoming a sociologist, there are things I no longer consume:

1. News without a clear source, or news with a clear and biased source.
2. The phrase "the people want what they want."
3. Universal conclusions derived from personal experience.
4. The romanticism of "everything was better in the old days."
5. Only the content the algorithm throws at me.
6. Accepting the surface, the visible, as data without digging deeper.
7. Tolerating people who discuss the surface without digging deeper.
8. Belief that social problems have individual solutions.
9. Disproportionate mob energy on social media.
10. Generalizations like "our people are like this."

Sociology doesn't just change what you study. It changes how you see everything. You start noticing patterns instead of events. Structures instead of individuals. Systems instead of stories.

Once you see it, you can't unsee it. And you can't consume shallow explanations the same way again.