Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Technology or electronic devices?

The universities exist since long time ago in human existence. The first record is from 2257 before Christ, much time ago! Someone could think that universities where more related to modern times, but that though is far away from reality. Now, you could be wondering: why I am saying all this? And now I give to you the answer: Because the technology that you can use in your different subjects is related with the historical time, and the context of the same. So, in our days we usually call technology to all the devices related to electronic devices. That is something true, in our historical time, but has someone think that in other times, basic things like papers or pencils where considered like the most new technological things that a common student could had.

The point that I am trying to explain is that the study are related to the technological things since long time ago. It would be something not understood that someone could say that the technology exist just in our times. The technology exists in everywhere, in all our subjects. Now talking in the context of the electronic devices, it is a really good thin k to incorporate that tool to our career. Not just because it is useful to us as sociologist, it is something more useful because we have to know to use the different tools that we are going to use in our working life.

We use electronic devices like calculators and the computer (mostly). Our teacher demands us to bring our test and presentation in a computerized format. And not just that, most of our teacher demand us to send the works and test by e-mail. That is the clearest example of the actual situation.

In other way, we use computer software on statistic. They are very useful for our aims in this area. It gives us the faculty to make calculations much easier, and much faster. It gives us the opportunity to make our interpretations of that result much faster. This program is called SPSS, and it is very useful in quantitative investigations.

The technology not only makes easier our works and test. It is needed because the complete society it is innovating in technology, so if we pretend to make an interpretation of the society, we have to know how it is function, to consider all the possibilities to make the interpretation that correspond.

1 comment:

  1. Very good Javier, I liked your opinions, well done. However, you made some mistakes related to grammar and vocabulary. Good intro but the conclusion needed a more careful end.

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