Socioliloligy

Well, it's a beautiful Tuesday morning. Namely because I'm going home. I couldn't care less about the weather. I have a six-plus hour drive in front of me, which I expect to be tons of fun (I take any opportunity I can to make my legs fall asleep).

Yesterday, in the midst of my sociology lecture, I realized something: I have used the "add word" function in Microsoft Word during those lectures more than in any other context. Because of that, I realized the following:

Sociology
Is the science of making
Up words when you must


Seriously, sociologists will take any word- be it verb, adjective, noun, or adverb- and warp it to their needs. Some examples: homophily, deindividuation, derationalization, interactionism, or affectual. All of these words stem from already existing words, but are altered for the sake of the sociologist.

Here are some words that, if I were a sociologist, would coin: amazingness, awesomization, epication, disintelligentation, and idiotism. Maybe that's where a degree in sociology would come in handy...

Some of you are probably reading these words and asking the same question I thought of in lecture today: Was George W. Bush a sociologist? The answer is no, he was a bullshitologist. The two are relatively similar, except that the latter is not acquired with a four-year education, you're born with it. But it has many advantages, just look at these masterpieces of words: misunderestimate, subliminable, insticated, or ingrinable. All about as legitimate as the sociologists'.