Over the semester you have learned about some of the basic sociological perspectives that can enhance our understanding of the world and how you and other people fit (and sometimes experience disconnection or exclusion) within it. We started by considering our individual social location/position and how that compares with people who inhabit the world in very different conditions. Furthermore, we learned about how to employ the sociological imagination to understand ways to distinguish between public and personal problems, as well as how varying social circumstances can affect people in different ways. In that process you were introduced to key features of culture and socialization that allow you to interact in meaningful ways with the social world around you. From there we also covered how inequalities emerge and persist along economic, gender, and racial lines; both providing opportunities for some, but limiting them for others. In the final section of the course we have assessed larger structural forces (macrosociology) that have transformed our social world and continue to cause large changes today. It is more important than ever to grasp how industrialization, technology, globalization, and our destruction of the environment impact social life more than ever.