What is Sociology? Sociology enables us to understand the structure and dynamics of society and their intricate connections to patterns of human behavior and personal life changes. It examines how the forms of a social network - groups, organizations, communities, social categories such as class, sex, age, or race, and various social institutions such as economic, political, or religious affect human attitudes, actions, and opportunities. Sociology also explores how individuals and collectivities construct, maintain, and alter social organization in various ways. Sociology asks about the sources and consequences of change in social arrangements and institutions and the satisfactions and difficulties of planning, accomplishing, and adapting to such change.
             Sociological imagination is a unique way to engage the world. To think sociologically is to realize that what we experience as personal problems are often widely shared by others like us. Many of our emotional problems are social issues. What is the difference between trouble and issue?
             Troubles: Within the individual's character and the range of their close relationship with others. They have to deal with themselves and within those limited areas of the social life of which they are directly and personally aware.
             Issue: It has to do with matters that transcend the local or immediate relationships of the individual. They must deal with different environments that overlap and penetrate each other to form the larger social and historical life structure.
             The difference between the two is a critical issue for sociological imagination and a feature of all classic works in social science. Most problems can't be defined in terms of the everyday environments of ordinary men. Issues involve a crisis in institutional arrangements and often involve contradictions or opposition. The sociological imagination helps humanity to shift from one view to another.
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