Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
I never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons. — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
People don't talk to each other. You're alone with your television set or internet. But you can't have a functioning democracy without… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Well, here you had a city that was selling more cars than ever before, that had this wondrous music being created, that… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
