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is awesome32278 Posts
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The analogy seems fitting, but sad : (
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What the hell, why do penguins do that shit>
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what area are you doing your masters in?
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On May 31 2010 09:19 AcrossFiveJulys wrote:
what area are you doing your masters in?
Social and Cultural Psychology
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Nicely written. How did you get into this "rut"?
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It wouldn't be so sad if penguins weren't so cute :[.
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What do you have to study for your final?
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On May 31 2010 09:28 XinRan wrote:
Nicely written. How did you get into this "rut"?
I was informed a masters degree in social research at the London School of Economics would make me more employable and consequently financially stable. So when I got an offer for a place, having previously completed a BA in Film Studies I willingly accepted.
LSE, for all its prestige, is a shithole. An absolute shithole of loneliness, career-driven dickheads with no self awareness. Through my initial 3 years experience in Warwick university studying film theory I had a good grasp of what sort of bullshit academia is built on. But nothing could prepare me for the past 7 months where the soulessness and futility of what I was being taught hit heights I never experienced before.
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On May 31 2010 09:37 zulu_nation8 wrote:
What do you have to study for your final?
I have a statistics exam (this is what im most worried about because I parted ways with numbers when Boxer last won a starleague.) An exam on culture and communication talking about contemporary developments on linguistic relativity, and one on evolutionary psychology. It's been cramtastic for the past few weeks!
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Osaka27173 Posts
And to think, having completed my Masters last year, I today printed out the requirements and admission details for the doctorate program. I haven't made up my mind, and I have to talk to my wife about it still, but... I can feel it coming on.
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On May 31 2010 09:41 Manifesto7 wrote:
And to think, having completed my Masters last year, I today printed out the requirements and admission details for the doctorate program. I haven't made up my mind, and I have to talk to my wife about it still, but... I can feel it coming on.
And yet, after all this something tells me I'll end up filling in that form at some point too, Mani T_T
I've such a love-hate relationship with my academic life, I know I'm good at it but I hate it. It gives drive like nothing else, yet I know it's intrinsically problematic.
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Let me get this straight. You're trashing people in academia saying they have no self-awareness, and at the same time decided to pursue a masters in social and cultural psychology after an undergraduate degree in film studies in order to make you more "employable"? Well fuck me sideways fireblast.
Mani, you should do the phd!!
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On May 31 2010 09:59 AcrossFiveJulys wrote:
Let me get this straight. You're trashing people in academia saying they have no self-awareness, and at the same time decided to pursue a masters in social and cultural psychology after an undergraduate degree in film studies in order to make you more "employable"? Well fuck me sideways fireblast.
Well obviously thats a very blunt reductionist reasoning behind my decision. I just thought it'll be worth my while and the field sounded interesting, more practical than film studies. When you go into something new, you have to give it the benefit of the doubt- how bad could it be, a new experience with supposedly the cream of the crop students in a prestigious institution. Well, it's very bad.
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Can you elaborate on what you dislike within your discipline? I'm very interested. Best of luck with your exams, hope you finish strong.
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On May 31 2010 10:17 zulu_nation8 wrote:
Can you elaborate on what you dislike within your discipline? I'm very interested. Best of luck with your exams, hope you finish strong.
I guess my qualms are on a more general level with academia itself, unconfined to the discipline of social psychology. I find academia intrinsically flawed in their rigid institutional forms at the moment.
What I dislike about my discipline is that it's a dead-end in terms of practicality. It is filled with theories about the relationship between culture and the individual, about representations that arise in different communities of people which all make sense, except it does not contribute to anything further than pointing out the obvious; "the individual can only be understood in relation to his or her culture" I've read a dozen books that conclude literally nothing else.
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Does the stuff you read have to do with Jung, Levi-Strauss, and so on? Is it closely related to cultural anthropology?
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Not so much, theyve come up on several occasions in discussion of contemporary developments in the field but on the whole my lecturers dont specialise in cultural anthropology but rather social constructionist and naturalist schools of thought.
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like as in discourse analysis stuff?
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Yeah we covered discursive theory, attribution theory, attitudes, social representations, collective representations, developmentalist perspectives, psychoanalysis, evolutionary psychology.
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thats some gangsta continental shit, you're way ahead of the stuff they teach in american universities.
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so not much has changed since Wundt died? :D
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I only know Richard Rorty in the 90s was still trying to introduce constructivist views into analytic philosophy. Social theory seems closely related to contemporary continental philosophy so North Americans are always a little behind. Don't think many programs teach Foucault.
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