Look at the news. Observe what is happening around you. Events occur that appear to be inexplicable. There are murders and massacres occurring as we speak. Some people and communities, on the other hand, open their hearts to victims of disaster.
People fall in love and get married.
People also get divorces. Students take courses that are coordinated through cyberspace. Masses of individuals react to the death of someone they have never personally met. The purpose of this course is to examine the social nature of human behavior and to obtain an understanding of societies, cultures, social problems, and social change. By the fact of his living he contributes, however minutely, to the shaping of this society and to the course of its history, even as he is made by society and by its historical push and shove.