Introduction to Sociology Articles, and a Discouragingly Uninsightful Class Period

Upon reading these articles I made a very important and near life changing conclusion. I was born a sociologist. I have wondered about the factors that influence and affect human behavior ever since elementary school, when I pondered the reasons that my peers seemed to dislike me. I was confused by the idea that my behavior made them uncomfortable, so I constantly contemplated the reasons that my behaviors did not coincide with that of the majority of my peers. The sociological imagination has always been a part of my persona whether I had willed it to be or not.
    One of the articles spoke of this very imagination, and of how it played unimaginable, and sometimes unseen roles in all of our lives. This was sociology. Human behavior at it's core. What we do and what causes us to do so.
    The second article talked about the differences between the social sciences in order to explain them. One thing that I did not find exemplary about this particular article entitled "What is Sociology? Comparing Sociology and the Other Social Sciences" was the fact that it separated the different areas of social sciences into distinguishable parts in which they were not all contributing to the one inherent goal: to understand human behavior. Just as psychology has many perspectives, so does the study of human behaviors, but just like psychology, the egelectic approach is the best model. Looking at one aspect of human behaviors is flawed from the start, and bound to give one a flawed understanding. Only by viewing humanity through every aspect possible can one really develop a fully functional understanding of ourselves, and we can only apply this knowledge for our true benefit if we have a full and completed understanding. In my opinion, psychology and sociology go hand in hand.
    The author seems to hint that anthropology and sociology more closely related than sociology and psychology, but I would disagree. Anthropology seems to take more of a material and unapplicable approach toward human behavior. Anthropology seems to stress what behaviors are present more than their actual cause.
    Psychology and Sociology are more closely related in my opinion, because they are both more focused on what contributes and causes human behavior than the actual behavior itself. They are two halfs of the same puzzle in a respect. Sociology focusing on the external stimuli, while psychology focuses in depth on the internal stimuli that cause behavior. The main commonality that they share is that they both try to appy the data they gather formulating models and ideas that are applicable in predicting behavior.    
    The last thing that I would like to shed light on is the seemingly shallow insight of my classmates. During the Ted and Zelda activity they reached for the lesser, and more obvious sociological stimuli that contributed to the couples predicament, and those that sought out something less typical, ended up with forced ideas of terrible construction. No one in that class period really demonstrated strong insight, and that severely worries me...