What is Web Sociology?
Awhile back we all had a discussion trying to answer this question, and we realized that web sociology was at once active, reflective, and interactive. You can discuss topics like gender, religion, sex, politics, personal growth, etc., online, with people from all over the world, all ages, male and female, parents and non-parents etc., and actively work to achieve synthesis by listening to different perspectives, disagreeing perhaps, and then learning from them. Active web sociology occurs when people from Australia, Israel, Sweden, Japan, India, Canada, and the United States meet in an online community and find a synthesis in the way they view issues personally important to them. There is also the reflective part: talking about social interactions and structures that actually occur on the web. We do that here a lot, too. Among the topics we have discussed in this vein are Prisoners on the Web and Drug Culture on the Web. And there is an interactive part: real-life social trends are am
