Tuesdays with Morrie is a great book about an old man who is dying from ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) but still finds a lot of joy in what little life remains. There is a bunch of stuff in this book that makes it good, like the use of sociology. Sociology plays a spectacularly great eye-opening role in Tuesdays with Morrie because of Morrie's superior knowledge of the study of development, structure, and function of human groups as interactions or organized patterns of behavior drastically impacts the way Morrie deals with other peoples emotions and his own as well. It also helps Mitch learn about himself and how to change some of those terrible traits. Sociology, Mitch, and Morrie's sociological views will be read in the following paragraphs.

Sociology is basically the study of the way humans interact with each other and act in general. Sociology is one of...