You can use your sociological imagination to see things in new and expanded ways. You, as an individual, obviously have a huge impact on your own life. Do what you are supposed to, and you will be better off for it. But, you are not completely the master of your own fate. Society definitely impacts on each of us.
Some people are in favored positions.
Some people are not in favored positions. Some people are born into poverty. Some people are born into families that don t care about them. Some people face other bad conditions, often not of their own making often of their own making. If so, you were concerned about what other people thought about you.