Sociology is the study of human social interaction.
Sociologists try to stand back and look at human interaction from a broad perspective.
We want to understand how social structures impact our lives. This isn't always easy, because those of us who study sociology are, in effect, studying ourselves. But that is the challenge. We look for similarities in social structures and human interactions across cultures and through time. Sociology studies everything from seemingly individualistic behaviors like body piercing to global social phenomena like the international movement to ban land mines.