GEOGRAPHY
Geography is the study of the Earth's landscapes, peoples, places, and environments. It is a unique discipline that spans both social sciences and physical sciences. My interest in geography is this combination of physical science and human science, because it is where intersectionality overlaps with spacetime. Furthermore, incorporating physical sciences into social science analyses creates more interesting, interdisciplinary research topics. These include the physical environments influence on society (and the opposite), the affect of chemical contamination on public health, how natural catastrophes will change the landscape of how/where people migrate, and a lot of other cool stuff.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Social sciences inform and allow critical thinking through studying different cultures, belief systems, and social structures. This progresses the empathy, tolerance, and diversity needed for a harmonious existence at the individual, communal, and societal levels. Along with quantitative analytic techniques, social scientists develop qualitative analytic acumen. Qualitative analytics is particularly interesting to me in the form of intersectionality. My view is that intersectionality to social scientists is what the Theory of Relativity is to physical scientists. In other words, intersectionality allows social scientists to make analyses relative to a specific perspective (i.e., individual, communal, demographic, socioeconmic, et cetera).
Specific topics of interest to me are the feedback systems created by philosophies and religious beliefs on political views and economics/decision making. These were all one and the same at a point in history, but significantly influence each other in modern society. Common examples of this include how literature and folklore represent and/or enforce cultural mores, and the influece of Christianity on capitalism with the concept of the Invisible Hand.