Social pain, of all detrimental experiences, remains largely overlooked by sociological inquiry. While attention to the sources are fused to Durkheim, from anomie to fatalism, the discipline centers its outlook upon other occurrences and social processes, such as emotion, cognition, or social networks. One exception challenging the notion that pain is notably biological is a turn toward negative physical pain. Along these lines, sociology provides the flux necessary for forging neuroscience and the social world through a consideration of social pain. Pain thus becomes a motivational and bonding force among humans. In this essay, we first provide a glimpse into social pain from a neuroscientific lens. We, then, proceed to contribute to the expanding body of research developing neurosociology by considering pain as a source of action that is embodied in the self, impacting upon individuals through role identities, and inequitably distributed across societies. In so doing, we expand the field of neurosociology in many necessary ways essential for considering social pain and action. Following this foray into a landscape unknown to many social scientists, we conclude by shoring up a set of implications for both sociologists and neuroscientists that support further expansions into this newly charted region of science.