Social theory deals with human values. Social theory focuses upon the causal importance of the individual and society. Social theory rests on axioms or fundamental assumptions about the causes of human behavior and the social universe. Social theory is always about the fundamental assumptions on which given systems of society are based. Social theory must be about the search for truth.
Social theory is analysis of humans and their societies.
Linking theory and practice, or using knowledge for personal and collective action is central to the history of social theory. C. Wright Mills popularized the search for understanding personal troubles in terms of social power with the term Sociological Imagination.