Sociology is a curious discipline. Its objects of attention are both the taken-for-granted and the exceptional. It looks at the everyday experience and the extraordinary events as problematic; suffused with simultaneous and conflicting yet flourishing negotiations. Moved by this insight Peter Berger opened up his famed book with this poignant statement: “It can be said that the first wisdom of sociology is this: things are not what they seem . Social reality turns out to have many layers of meaning. The discovery of each new layer changes the perception of the whole.”1 Thus, the sociological perspective exposes these layers and people who possess such outlook become competent social actors.
