I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
“Be careful about financial offers that often come by email. Before you respond to such an offer, ask yourself: do I really… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“A major goal of polygyny in divine marriage is to eliminate the potential exploitation of women and other negatives that can occur… — Patricia Dixon Copy Share Image
“The development of civilization was marked by constant changes. This will continue – therefore, the future will belong to people ready for change.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
Sociology presupposes a certain awareness that human events have different levels of meaning, some of which are hidden from the consciousness of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
“Chicago is not the most corrupt of cities. The state of New Jersey has a couple. Need we mention Nevada? Chicago, though,… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I've got a solid grounding in history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, etc etc. That means I actually have a good idea about how… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
“So he's a good, clean, decent man, and he's an enhancement to my life and he could also be an enhancement to… — Patricia Dixon Copy Share Image
As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“Single parents - both women and men - can play as critical a role as the traditional two-parent family, and gay and… — Michael Kimmel Copy Share Image
“Of all the simplifications to which the human spirit naturally inclines, unable to reconcile itself to the complexity of the real, there… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Pandemics have long been among my favorite topics to teach sociology with, not because the subject is cheery, but because they contain… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly,… — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
In the case of 'The Housewives,' I call the 'Housewives' sociology of the rich. I think it's just fun to watch. It's… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
“They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate. But they're fascinated with the snake-pit. ” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Already I notice a feeling of 'If this be sociology, Good Lord deliver us.' However sociology has endured many things like it… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
“A friend is a person who always understands your preoccupations, even when other people do not perceive them at all.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“The attempt to interpret human behavior in terms of models derived from the natural sciences eventually destroys personal responsibility.” — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“Do not look for company at all costs, and especially do not allow loneliness to lead you to fickle love or false… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“Only a person who is motivated in the inner depths of his being will help without hesitation and with no obligation for… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics)… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
I'm double majoring in social studies - which is sociology, anthropology, economics, and philosophy - and African-American studies. — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
“Even when we are confused about someone’s gender, and don’t have a greater awareness of what it means to be trans, we… — C. N. Lester Copy Share Image
“The lawyer is not worth in the calm times; his great role is when he must take the power of the despots,… — Rui Barbosa Copy Share Image
It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The law of all modern states takes account of associations, whose members, in theory, pursue the common end with equal zeal. The… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“It is not acceptable that election winners interpret history. History should be left to historians who have a difficult task. They should… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
I moved to Philadelphia to go to school at Eastern partly because I wanted to study the Bible and I also went… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image