Sociology Quotes
Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.
While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.
All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.
I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.
We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it
I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids.
Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.
Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.
Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.
Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.
Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.
I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.
The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.
I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch.
Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
Already I notice a feeling of 'If this be sociology, Good Lord deliver us.' However sociology has endured many things like it and my faith in its ultimate triumph never wavers.
It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are.
It is only when you meet someoneof a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your ownbeliefs really are.
History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.
But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.
Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.
Postmodernity means the exhilarating freedom to pursue anything, yet mind-boggling uncertainty as to what is worth pursuing and in the name of what one should pursue it.
As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground.
Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness: it invents nations where they do not exist.
Any industrial product that comes in per capita quanta beyond a given intensity exercises a radical monopoly over the satisfaction of a need.
The deviant and the conformist...are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.
A wise man does not give quick answers to complex questions – he observes, analyzes and contemplates.
There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.
I like to go to Starbucks and watch the intellectuals. I observe them and their intellectualness. They in turn observe me drinking coffee and being a creeper.
If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.
Be prepared to change yourself if you think there is a need to change your environment.
Even when we are confused about someone’s gender, and don’t have a greater awareness of what it means to be trans, we have a choice to respond with kindness rather than cruelty.
An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.
My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.
Every fool has an idea how to change the world. Wise people think about how to improve the world around them.
They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate. But they're fascinated with the snake-pit.
To recognize and comprehend what influences us and others is to function with purpose.
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.
At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.