-All these things play a crucial role in society and effect the way people think and behave. Sociological imagination is the idea that an individual must not blame oneself for the things that happen to them, but if not because of reasons they cannot challenge. For example, rather than seeing drinking tea every night as your choice, you can view it as a ritual that you practice daily because it was something you were taught by your parents to do every day. Sociology, although typically coined as a term that refers to the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society, was actually a term founded by Augustus Comte and was used as an umbrella to three different stages in history. Comte produced three stages of history which all formed part of sociology. The first stage of history was the theological stage. The theological stage refers to a time in history in which society based many of its views on the will of God. The second stage in history was the metaphysical stage. During this stage peoples’ views on religion was not as prominent in their everyday decision making, and people began to look at things from a view that strayed from religious confines. The last stage in history was the scientific stage. Comte’s work and views emerged from this stage in history, where people began to accept scientific work and evidence that was found by professionals. Manifest functions is an idea coined by the sociologist Robert K. Merton. Merton described manifest