Hello folks, again my name is Jake and I'm starting my first blog post this afternoon. I'll be starting off with a bit of information about myself to help you to get to know who I am a little bit better. That being said, I am a proud Adirondack 46er, this means that I have climbed every mountain originally surveyed to be over 4,000 feet above sea level in the ADK park. It is such an important accomplishment to me in part because it took my father and I eleven years to complete (starting with Mt.Marcy when at age 8). What's more is that we finished despite of a 3 year span when my father was fighting cancer and recovering.

Now onto the sociology. I personally define sociology as the study of people, their behavior due to development, and their environment. With this belief, the sociological perspective then becomes how one sees the world once they understand the lens of the study of sociology. It requires looking at people's behavior from more of an academic standpoint and one that i more inquisitive. To explain, I am suggesting that the sociological perspective should make you look at society as abnormal and then question what is abnormal and why is it the way that it is. It becomes useful when considering examining the correlation of people to their environment and with this the perspective becomes useful for development of people as a whole. Understanding is the first step to evolution into something or in this case someone more open to experiences and opportunity (possibly due to change in external environment). Which now brings us to the uses for sociology and the sociological perspective. From a criminal justice perspective sociology becomes especially useful in finding tendencies to help prevent future crime. Again, sociology deals with people and how their day to day lives are different from person to person based on their development and their environment. So, to study people, is to study behavior which can lead to highlighting crime based sociology which can lead to further crime prevention.