Originally Posted by
Brett Nortje
This is a study of culture in humanity, where sociology is the study of how people interact within psychological parameters - this is more surface level than sociology, i would say.
One of the things that comes to mind with this field of study is how people find different cultures. this is because they live in different areas with different things influencing them. for example, a farmer in the first world i different culturally to a farmer in the third world because of the influence of media on them, or, the difference in temperature. maybe the farmers in the first world would get irrigation, while the third world farmer would do a rain dance.
If you want to know what the people of the area will do at any given time, you need to observe the habitat they live in, optimally, it could be a concrete jungle or something. if there is a land mark, they will gather there and dress appropriately, maybe in dungarees if in florida or gum boots if in the marsh of africa.
Then, there are factors like ways of speaking. this is because they have different languages for example, and they will stress different words in different ways, of course. like, for example, a city that says the same word over and over again will enjoy it less. this could be like "buy" on the stock market, or "hurry" in the street repairmen's way of speaking, of course.
So, the less you say something the more you enjoy saying it, i reckon. if it was that something sounds nice, what makes it sound nice? the sounds of words will always sound nice to all ears - the same words, spoken the same way - with the emphasis on certain syllables and so forth. for example, an african puts the emphasis at the beginning and end of the words, while an english speaker puts emphasis in the middle of the words. this is because the black people in my area would like to get your attention and then leave you with a final impression, while a english speaker would rather be polite at the start and end. The african wants to address the person with a throat clearing of sorts, and the english person wants to be quite to get people to listen, and then needs to keep their attention.