ABSTRACT
This chapter is illustrative, rather than exhaustive, featuring only a selection of social processes. It focuses on processes that are particularly significant and which, from an applied sociology point of view, present opportunities for using our knowledge of them in practical situations. The chapter also focuses on sets of processes, as it is possible, and helpful, to see how some processes cluster together. It explains the fact that there are numerous social processes that go on; some can be positive and helpful, others destructive. The sociological imagination, focused as in the chapter on social processes, should make them visible. They are only invisible until you know where and how to look. The chapter describes the sociology which revolves around the idea that people are social animals. One of the things that make them different from other animals, even those who have some form of society, is that they are able to do things on a large-scale collective basis.
