History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the…

Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography.

— Brian Solis

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was…

— George Lucas

History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.

— J. H. Plumb

I've got a solid grounding in history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, etc etc. That means I actually have a good idea about how societies change…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an…

— Émile Durkheim

Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture…

— Renzo Piano

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

— Clifford Geertz

Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional…

— George Akerlof

Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just in the…

— Jonathan Raban

More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense, the necessary…

— Ordway Tead

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…

— K.P. Yohannan

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

Oral history is a research method. It is a way of conducting long, highly detailed interviews with people about their life experiences, often in…

— Patricia Leavy

“All social interactions require some loss of freedom.”

— Erol Ozan

When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach…

— Rebecca Goldstein