In what ways can sociology help us attain perspective about things we don't understand?

Gaining perspectives is very important because it can help us make sense of things we don’t understand. Explanation:  when we don't know something we try to understand it in so it can make sense to us.

by using different sociological theories:

Explanation:socialogical perspective examines the social context in which people live in and how it influence their lives. It questions how people are influenced by their societies, Shared-culture and territories, it studies how age, income, education, job, gender, racial ethnicity affect human behavior; and there are usually theories to attain these perspectives e.g Marxism , to understand this perspectives, you need to put your social imaginative abilities to work by thinking yourself away from the regular routine of daily life; and use these different theories to understand that same situation to avoid stereotyping and generalizations!!

portugal is the westernmost country in europe.