Why Sociology?

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” This is a fairly standard question that most children will hear at some point of their development. Responses can range from musician, firefighter, surgeon, president, to fairy princess or teenage mutant ninja turtle (Michaelangelo for me). However, in some sense, I feel this is the wrong question. It is a self-limiting and socially confining question, as if what we do for a career will be definitive of our personhood. What if we asked ourselves a different question, “what kind of person do you want to become?” Get full access to Passional Church Substack at passionalchurch.substack.com/subscribe