Sociology itself isn’t the study of just a single facet of society but rather how each and every aspect works together to create the world that we live in. It’s easy to focus all of our attention on ourselves. We live in a society that is extremely selfish and tends to disregard the problems of others. We disassociate ourselves from the aspects of society that we don’t believe affect us. The reality of this, however, as stated by C. Wright Mills in his article The Sociological Perspective, is that we are all a part of something bigger than ourselves. His point is illustrated in both Allan G. Johnson’s article The Forest, the Trees, and the One Thing and in Donna Gaines’s article Teenage Wasteland. Unbeknownst to us, we participate is social
