Before graduating, he was tested by the teacher’s graduation speech ...

Source: Department of Sociology at Peking University, China Youth Daily, Watch Think Tank

Author: Zhou Feizhou (Director of the Department of Sociology at Peking University)

Recently, sociologist Zhou Feizhou gave a speech at the graduation ceremony of the Department of Sociology of Peking University to discuss how to maintain a sober judgment in the age of the proliferation of opinions.

Tonight, we want to share a graduation speech. May you be inspired after reading, and learn to break through the fog in the torrent of opinions and have an independent and sober life.

Teachers and classmates:

good afternoon! Everyone is welcome to participate in the 2022 graduation ceremony and degree awarding ceremony of the Department of Sociology of Peking University. First of all, on behalf of the Department of Sociology, I would like to express warm congratulations to students who participated in the graduation ceremony, graduated, obtained bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees. Congratulations to you!

We have experienced a special graduation season this year. For more than two years since the epidemic, we have been studying and living in the ups and downs of the epidemic prevention and control, and have undergone various physical and mental tests.

Although today's graduation ceremony is only the classmates and teachers in the school, and the lack of direct participation of parents, friends and guests, our excitement and excitement are as ever, and the graduation season that has experienced difficult time is a brighter graduation season.

The graduation ceremony is a ritual of celebration and a ritual. As a teacher, in the face of the students who are about to run, I want to say something that I want to tell the students the most as a preferred presentation.

I believe that everyone has some similar feelings as me, that is, the simpler life, the smaller the activity range, the less people in contact, the more sensitive it is to the outside world. The more news events are The louder the sound, it is easy to feel that you have fallen into the complicated and complicated opinions and disputes on the Internet. Industrialized manufacturing standard products, commercial manufacturing best -selling products, while the Internet facilitates our lives, it has also created too many opinions. Various opinions are like flooding floods that stimulate our emotions and impact our concepts. We are often involuntarily wrapped in it, become part of the opinion of the flood, and become the power of others.

There are some things in common on the Internet. Generally, they are distinctive statements, standing teams, or even praising or abuse. They lack sufficient evidence, meticulous analysis and rigorous logic, so they are just some opinions. Although some of these opinions are also living people, he may also make such an opinion because of his own thinking, not other purposes, but because it is online, we can't know what kind of person he is, why he published such this like this The opinion, what kind of intention he has, so this opinion does not have much reference value to us.

We cannot rely on collecting and statistical opinions as a understanding of society, let alone affect and control our views and positions.

Although these opinions surrounded us, covering up the sounds around and covering our vision, we should be soberly realized that only by understanding those who express these opinions can we seriously treat these opinions.

One opinion is not approved by me because of the same opinion as me, nor is it correct because I meet a certain position, but because I have a considerable understanding of the person holding this opinion, I pay attention to this opinion. Therefore, although all opinions are close to me because of the network, the people behind these opinions are close to me, so the opinions are far away and distance.

The opinions in the circle of friends are closer to us. Only closer, the sound is even more loud, sometimes it seems to force us to stand and stand in line. We often feel that the world has changed because of the climax of the circle of friends. In fact, if you really go out, friends will be good in reality. Most people just enter another one when I picked up the mobile phone to swipe the screen Species. The network itself has such a role of helping the flames, turning the communication of opinions into a turbulent torrent. So, how can we keep a sober mind and judgment in the flood of this opinion?

My suggestion is to recognize the prerequisite for his words. Just like I am talking to you now, everyone has a sober understanding and clear positioning. What kind of person will say what, what kind of position will have what kind of view, this is called Zhiren's world.

For social phenomena, an opinion, a point of view, and a set of theories cannot exist from the person who published or invented it. People.

Even if a good person tells the truth, even if it is simply simple, it will be infected with the people around him. Even if a bad person speaks the truth, even if it sounds good, it sounds correct. Even if it is truth, it will become a ironic or a joke.

In front of the person who speaks, the opinion is just a kind of expression. He may be able to express logic and argument, but we will know that this is just because he is particularly good at expressing. In fact, you will find that even if a opinion is fierce and extreme, as long as you put it back to the published person, you can treat it calmly.

Therefore, recognizing the people behind the opinions can make us more appropriate and properly treat opinions, and treat all kinds of so -called words and PUA, which has almost become a must -have for life in the Internet era. It is not easy to recognize the person who speaks. This is the level of sociological exams that everyone learned. This exam really starts after graduation and will continue.

Mr. Fei Xiaotong said that he believes that sociology is a knowledge of how to teach people in a complex society. Therefore, the level of human beings represents the level of sociology that everyone learns. The key to learning to be a person is to learn from people and beings from examples.

Mr. Pan Guangdan, a sociology predecessor, quoted Edmond Berk, "The example is the only school of human beings, and it has no other place of learning." Confucius said, "Three people must have our teacher. Choose their good. From this, the person who is not good is changed. "This process of choice, from, and changed is the process of constantly understanding people in people in contact with others.

Everyone is about to go to the society, and every day, facing the task of calculating gains and losses, discerning right or wrong, and controlling the seminars. The key to this is not that you use knowledge to solve problems, but because you use the sociology you learned to identify people and " "Or" change ", take the role model as an example, and strive to become a role model for others.

Of course, the role model is not limited to the people around them, including the sages of the saints from the present, the East and the West.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the reconstruction of the Department of Sociology of Peking University and the 100th anniversary of the Department of Sociology at Yanjing University. Through the Department of Celebration, students have known many seniors of sociology. They are very close to us, warm and kind. The predecessors of Jiayan can help us break through the fog, climb up the top of the mountain, and appreciate the glorious realm of life. Regardless of how the society changes, the personality that we admire is always a fingertips that we are settled and self -established.

After all, the trend on the Internet is the soil that originated from reality. In reality, we know very well that the right or wrong of judging one thing, the logic of rationality is not necessarily reliable, and the emotional empathy is not necessarily reliable.

In this era, what we need is the wisdom of sociology about people. In real social practice, help us become the mainstay in the flood of opinions. I would like to encourage my classmates.

Finally, I wish the classmates a smooth sailing, Peng Cheng Wanli!

Figure 丨 Li Yinbai

Source: Department of Sociology at Peking University, China Youth Daily, Watch Think Tank

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