Sociology

Society is not random. People queue, vote, marry, protest, work, worship, joke, punish, conform, and resist in patterned ways. Sociology studies those patterns. It asks how personal choices connect to institutions, power, culture, and everyday meaning. Three perspectives remain central: functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. Each gives a different answer to a basic question. What holds society together? Who benefits from social arrangements? How do peopl