Learning sociology is to learn a way of thinking and analyzing problems. Society is constantly developing and changing. We can look back at China a hundred years ago and see how different people's lifestyles and values were at that time.

This means that we can't look at the whole world with the eyes of the past, and it also means that we can't solve the problems of the present with the methods of the past. When sociology leads us to understand and explain the world, we begin to have a spirit that we will never take anything for granted again.

Teacher Zheng Yefu also said in his speech that when we caught all kinds of social changes, we began to learn to reflect and analyze. Reflection can let us know that no matter what we do or what problems we solve, there is no way to solve them once and for all. Therefore, we can learn to explore and innovate from reflection.

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Sociology should be useful in a special way. For example, by deeply dissecting how society works, we can create specific methods to improve society, and then let society operate according to these specific models and organizations, and regard sociology as a useful tool to serve this.

However, we should not be forced to accept the view that sociology is essentially a discipline that pursues practicality or usefulness. Sociology may really have no practical use at all. Of course, it can be a pursuit of knowledge and wisdom and an important tool to help us improve our critical and aesthetic power.

In a sense, everyone can be a sociologist. In our daily life, we constantly discuss various social topics every day, and even argue about a specific social topic in the circle of friends and WeChat group, although we may not realize that we are thinking in the way of sociologists.