Number 1: A Fuller Picture

This is part of a series of Top 7 Things Sociology Offers the World.

Sociology offers a fuller picture of our condition as human beings.

No amount of closing our eyes and ears and singing "na-na-na-na" evoking the name of Ayn Rand three times a day, will change the fact that we share our world with each other. What we do and what other people do creates a collective reality that needs to be understood in order to be improved.

If we ignore this data, we will be scratching our collective heads about why we can't solve problems. And nowadays we are scratching our collective heads wondering why war, famine, poverty, violence and other collective factors still exist. One of the main reasons is that political solutions often ignore the hard stuff that require people to change. A politician will never ask his constituents to change and so any "solution" found in that realm will be lacking.


If we were more interested in truth than politics, we would see change. We know this because the few times we have done this. it has worked out quite well, at least until we let money and politics corrupt it.

Next: Sociology offers some of the best ways to measure our successes. (Published March 26, 2013, 6am PDT)