Sociology is to study the development of all aspects of human society and the problems in or after development, and try to find solutions with the results of research. However, contrary to expectations, sociology can often find problems but can't find a solution to the fundamental problems. Sometimes it seems to be solved, but it is only a short-term superficial temporary solution. Because sociology is still people-oriented, it is to understand the problems in the world from the perspective of people. We believers all know that no matter what kind of social problems, they are actually human problems. People's problem is that people are guilty, and people can't solve their own crimes. So I think sociology can only find and ask questions, but it can't find the essential reason of the problem and can't solve the problem fundamentally. It can be said that sociology is to find and ask questions, and theology is to find out the essential reasons of problems and solve them fundamentally.
The author said that "sociology is an effective tool to understand and transform society", but I don't entirely agree. Sociology is indeed an effective tool to understand society, but it is not an effective tool to transform and change society. Because there is no benign operation and coordinated development society brought by sociology, we have not seen such an absolute example in the world. Sociology can only make us better understand social phenomena, but not let us transform society. From the perspective of theology, history and ethics, religion is the main source of power to influence and transform society. Sociology is nothing more than the study of human problems and everything related to people. Sociology cannot exist without people. And man is a man, a religion, and the only creature with the image of God. In sociology, sociology only studies people as higher animals, so it can only study all the external manifestations and problems of people. But I don't know the source of its essence, the significance in the process and the final outcome. Essentially, sociology doesn't know what a person is at all, and it can't find a way to make people live out eternal meaning and value through research, so it can't make society have a really benign operation and coordinated development. Sociology does not understand people, let alone people's guilt; And all social problems come from the evil in human nature, so they are even more incomprehensible. To solve all social problems, in essence, we must first solve the crime problem; So sociology can't solve the essential problems of society. So I say that sociology can only be an effective tool to understand social phenomena rather than transform society; Religious belief is that among all religions, only Christianity can transform or even change society if we want to study it deeply. This is not a myth, nor an armchair strategist, but something that can be tested by history; The history, culture, science and modern civilization of European and American countries can come forward to testify.
So sociology is completely useless? No, sociology has its own value. As we mentioned above, sociology can discover social problems, make people understand society more clearly and help national policy makers, institutions and churches. Better understand the different situations in various fields of local society, so as to better complete beautiful plans and decisions to help the society. Although sociology is a humanities science, it is of little help to faith itself. However, it is of great help to the church Ministry and an effective tool for the church to understand the social needs. So sociology is very useful, if we can understand and solve problems that sociology can't solve based on theology; This is of great benefit to society, and it is also the contribution and witness of the church to society.