“Two years ago I read a book that really opened my mind: Telling about society” by Howard S Becker. It inspired me on different ways to interpret society. For a “conservative” sociologist like me it was an amazing discovery. We can interpret the dynamics of our social environment with different tools beyond the formal academic instruction. The course reinforces this idea on me: it is possible to collect a lot of insights from different disruptive sources to interpret reality and create new solutions, not only from the linear and rational education.
Like, art, philosophy, gaming, technology and philosophy. I appreciated how this section was not making in any way a distinction between what might be considered “high” and “low” sources of inspiration.”