Department of Sociology What is it?/Goals What is Sociology It's
About Us There are over 40,000 species of social animals on this
planet - one of which is us. Sociologists seek to understand
humans as social creatures, and the society in which they must
live: our social behaviors, the institutions and culture we
create, the way these things create us, the nature of social
change, the problems societies and individuals have and how they
are related to each other. It's a Science Anyone can try to
guess how society works, or speculate on how to solve social
problems. This is done all the time by different people. From
classrooms to barrooms, and in the mass media, supposed experts
and authorities offer simple solutions to complex problems. But
Sociology is especially suited to answering tough questions
about society because it is a science - an approach that tests
proposed explanations by investigating facts from the real
(social) world. In completing an education in sociology, you
will learn what others have di