Sociology is a science aimed at studying how an individual’s personality and behavior are influenced by the social milieu of which he or she is a part by means of systematic and scientific methodologies. No other social sciences can parallel sociology in terms of the breadth of research and the multiplicity of perspectives. In the course of my undergraduate program at the Department of Sociology at Fudan University, I refused to be dominated like most of my classmates by the prevailing Marxist ideology that informs much of sociological education and research in China. I was only ready to acknowledge Marxism as one of numerous schools of sociological thought, with its inherent strengths as well as weaknesses. By learning such important and enlightening courses as Western Sociology and Social Psychology and immersing in technical literature as well as soliciting rewarding instructions from knowledgeable professors, I came to develop a comprehensive understanding of most schools of sociology, their research paradigms, and their perspectives. My education in sociology has armed me with unique visions which, to my pleasant surprise, enable me to examine diverse social phenomena from wholly novel angles and to interpret their underlying significance. In this process, my speculative faculty is considerably enhanced.