Assignment about What You Mean Sociology?

Running head: SOCIOLOGY
SOCIOLOGY
Name of Student:
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Introduction
In current years, the advance of social media has changed the way in which most end-
users view the Internet. Social media is based on the idea of understanding and communicating
with people. This gives people the opportunity to communicate, opening up and linking the
globe. Social networking does have a critical impact on human lives as it impacts much in all
fields of life, including politics, the sector of the economy and education. Social media plays an
essential role in students ' learning behaviour in order to achieve successful education in today's
age (Greenhow and Lewin 2016). The influence of social media is now becoming a critical and
motivating force in sustainable learning. The globe has just become a massive city, and through
social media, it has become a smaller community and how it communicates. The thesis statement
of this paper argues over the impact of social media over the lifelong learning process.
Discussion
In modern times, the student culture is profoundly influenced by social media and social
networking, which are becoming a regular aspect of every person's lives in a contemporary
society increasingly. Innovations quickly take place in the world of I.T. and are posted on
numerous social networks and networking platforms (Galanis et al. 2016). The new social media
trends of communication include Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and WhatsApp and specific
communication methods are neither guided nor reversed.
The use of social media is not only for professionals and elders but is commonly used by
students in education. There are people who can not write their own name and can only identify
him and people by taking photos with full internet access and continuously check their
smartphones for status updates. Students use social sites for many reasons, for example, for study
purposes, because social media offers whatever information they would like quite easily and
quickly in a split second. The use of social media depends on the individual, as it affects society,
i.e. the participant, both positively and negatively (Elkaseh, Wong and Fung 2016). Social media
has become a significant diversion for students, which has caused students ' actual performance
to decrease, especially those who tend to view their Social media sites when they should be
learning.
Social media – current day

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Social media networks are now embedded firmly in modern culture. Youth are
intrinsically motivated online from their peers. They communicate with each other and ask for
feedback. Children are more inspired to learn from each other than adults. The only sources of
information are not teachers or adults any more. It binds children more than ever by making
them more network-oriented (Rashid and Asghar 2016). Children can make friends more quickly
with people worldwide, most of whom they will never meet without this technological progress.
Social media technologies thus allow users to communicate, develop, modify and try out new
types of visual, graphical and auditory information. The framework for social media is seen as
open rather than closed, bottomed up rather than top-down.
Learning with social media
The reality that most students and teachers use smartphones and social media in
education is no secret. There are also applications and web tools in an educational context that
deliver social media. The usage of the social media in the context of higher education classrooms
is growing with professors using a wide range of software tools and free web apps to improve
research, collaboration and interaction (Piotrowski 2015). Compared to the traditional method of
learning, which offers students little opportunities to develop and sustain themselves, social
media-based learning platforms regulate learning by themselves.
The social network sites of E-Learning have solved the major problem by supplying
teachers with information in recent years. Social media sites helped to address some of these
problems, though by incorporating the student's interactive dimension to the educational process,
leading to an increase in students ' involvement in e-learning and clarifying the purpose behind
the social network sites (Ali et al. 2017).
Effects of social media
Positive
Social media has become a progressively vital part of humanity by altering the social
standards, culture and values. The sharing of data together with the dissemination of knowledge
are necessary social conditions. Social media have transformed the way people; especially
women-communicate, connect and socialize in educational institutions, including school and
university students, during the course of their learning experiences. This modern form of social