After a decent time period of learning philosophy (it’s a big fat subject indeed I guarantee), I realized that, even as an academic topic, I’m more attracted to pursuing scoiological inquiries than sticking to philosophical musings for long.
Not to dismiss philosophy at all. The philosophical research is conducted by scrutinizing a certain text written by a philosopher at any point of time/era, interpreting it over and over again, and hence rejuvenating the value of the text after all.
However, I ended up holding on to a view that philosophy is one of toolkits to bridge the gap between ideational and practical dimensions of hunamnity. Plus, the textual understandings as a result of philosophical training are prone to be limited because it’s barely immune to an ideological influence of the author(s).
Regarding my penchant for sociological theories, I desire to trace the genealogy of human beings as homo economicus (or the economic man) from the viewpoint of the classical utilitarianism and its empiricist backbone, and its critical responses from the French sociologist, Gabriel Tarde.
Overall, this will be pursued as I aspire to apply to the PhD program, as an interdisciplinary research between the French sociology and the intellectual history of economics in the English tradition, hoping that this will better explain how we got to where we’re at on the global scale (the neoliberal economy/policies, consumerism, etc.).
I’m still clueless as to how things will roll out in the end, but hopefully this is worth an attempt.