Specialties

All things are related, and all topics are one.

   It's useful for an academic to take a special interest in one subject and become expert in it. But getting too deep among the trees means the "expert" can lose sight of the relationship of the forest to the mountains and the plains, the rivers and the oceans.
   Economics is a valuable field, as is sociology, anthropology, psychiatry, history and politics. They are, however, all related.
   Economics deals with what people do with what's available. Sociology examines how various social groups do it. Anthropology studies who and where mankind generally does it. Psychology wonders why they do it. History looks at when people did it. And politics looks at those in charge of programs that deal with economic issues.
   There are also subfields. Journalism, for example, reports on who does what, where, when and how, and wonders why.
   These are all social sciences. In addition, there are the physical sciences, such as chemistry, physics, geometry and astrology, with mathematics to link them.
   Those in the social studies, however, make a mistake when they try to reduce their topics to mathematical exactitude. People are not numbers, and are too fickle to behave in the same way.
   Some generalizations can be made, however, even as we remember that people are too variable to be jammed into a single box.
   Keep in mind that the most well educated are those who know that all things are related, and all topics are one.