John Nagle

our access to choice is limited by the social groups we are members of

discipline of sociology is now over a century old and contains a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches.

way to consider sociology is as a methodical study of the ways that people are affected by and affect society, and the processes that are associated with groups, societies and institutions.

The aim or perspective of sociology is to reveal how social structures create both opportunities and constraints that characterize our lives.

Social structures are those relatively stable relationships between people that are shaped by institutions

By challenging the myth that human behaviour is purely individualistic

driven by biological impulses, sociology encourages us to understand the social dynamics that turn us into members of society.

THINKING SOCIOLOGICALLY MEANS RECOGNIZING HOW MY SOCIAL GROUPS HAVE A STRONG IMPACT ON MY LIFE CHOICES AND EXPERIENCES.

The Sociological Imagination
Thinking sociologically is what the American sociologist C. Wright Mills (1916-62) termed the “sociological imagination”.

Yet the sociological imagination compels us to see racial, gender and socioeconomic inequalities not as facts of nature but as products of the social world.