Open Blog Posts 8 Language in sociological career

 Each field has its own specific language, for example the medical nursing and doctors use lots of short terms and specific biological, chemical, medical proper noun. Computer technicians use english programming coding and mathematic language, people in business have specific abbreviations like MBA and EQ(emotion management),and so on. Sociology also has it's own language.And in order to be an successful historian or sociologist, it is important to know the language and vocabularies that has connection with it, which is an important skills needed for this particular career and other fields related like psychology, history and political science.

 In sociology learning process,there are also thousands of specific vocabularies in professor's articles, textbooks and speeches. Each single word usually represent a long principle which is a difficult work for us International students to learn. Because translating them are just not enough as their content and meaning are usually specific in specific context, the result we get after translation are usually the surface meaning, while we need to check Wikipedia or sociological dictionary to check its real content. And not mention costing so much time from us to translate. The only difference between my field with others like Biology or Business is that we don't have so much abbreviations. That's a good news for us because other vocabularies'content we could use a whole article to explain them. For example, I have no idea what Sociological Imagination means when I first read it and translate it. Also, I have totally no idea what's the definition and differences between Functionalist, Conflict and Symbolic Interaction these three principles if I just translate them, until I check Wikipedia I understand that they are three basic sociological perspectives, which is like observating a social problem from three different directions.

  

  Your career Language is the part for people in any field must understand and pick up on to succeed. It comes with knowledge and experience from practice in history and normal life. So, besides being familiar with specific career practicing skills, your fields' languages will also impact how good a person can do his job.