Sociology is a study on society and human beings within it. It covers how a society works, how it interacts with other societies, how it shapes lives of its individual members, and how individual members, in return, influence the society theyre living in. Topics of sociology cover a greatly broad spectrum from brief encounters of two people in a coffee shop to economic inequality on the global level. The aim of this course is to introduce sociology by examining its key components and up-to-date issues. Students who have taken this course successfully will gain sociological imagination, a unique disciplinary perspective of sociology to view individual and private issues in the context of broader social and public process.