If you choose to study in this department, we will help you to develop what C. Wright Mills called a "sociological imagination." This way of looking at the world will help you to understand how social order and personal problems interrelate ? how larger social forces shape the course of our individual lives. It will also help you to analyze people's lives in the historical contexts in which they are being lived, encouraging you to make sense of the social pressures surrounding both your own life and the lives of others in whom you have an interest. Sociology has the power to transform people, and many of these people go on to transform society.