Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of…

How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming…

— Steven Johnson

“In my early teens, [my grandfather] would sometimes stomp around his living room, where he used to shave towards mid-day with bowl, brush and…

— Peter Hitchens

Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant…

— Anatol Rapoport

The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was…

— Russell Baker

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

— Denise Scott Brown

I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to…

— Jonathan Lethem

I think sociologists are among the best at thinking about emergence, of thinking about the ways that the society is more than the sum…

— Jonathan Haidt

“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample…

— Richard Wall

The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God…

— Jonathan Haidt

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

— Thomas Piketty

It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have…

— Brassai

Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come…

— John Dewey

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have…

— Anonymous