This book provides an insight into sociology, its theories, and methods. Rudolf Richter explains how sociology examines individuals and their relationships with one another, and illustrates how these interactions develop into habits and rules, systems, and institutions. Learn what constitutes a society. Discover the empirical methods and statistical analyses that sociologists use to make social structures visible and explain them. Understand how the quantitative approach differs from the qualitative one. Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of sociology.