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Sociology studies virtually every aspect of human society: the family, gender, race and ethnic relations, aging, education, work, population, sexuality, and many others. Its principle goal as a discipline is to understand the workings of human society and to explain social behavior. Although sociologists do study what are commonly regarded as social problems—crime, drug addiction, and poverty, for example—they also examine fundamental social processes present in any society: social change, conflict, social networks, and inequality.