“There is a huge difference between thinking we know something and actually knowing something.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“The deviant and the conformist...are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.” — Kai Erikson Copy Share Image
“In reality, there is no such thing as absolute freedom. The rules of social interaction determine one's freedom.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“You are still what you think, despite what others think about you!” — Dr. Vivencio Ballano Copy Share Image
I'm a huge feminist, I majored in sociology at college, and I care about what I put into the world. — Beanie Feldstein Copy Share Image
“Every fool has an idea how to change the world. Wise people think about how to improve the world around them.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“The people who overcome their fears are the ones who can achieve their dreams.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“Power, it seems, is one of those terms we all understand and can explain--until asked to do so.” — Martin N. Marger 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
I'm double majoring in social studies - which is sociology, anthropology, economics, and philosophy - and African-American studies. — Yara Shahidi 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
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
“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
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
“That’s what happens when you crowd enough folks into the same sandbox: eventually they’re gonna start throwing a fit over who gets… — Jacob D. Lochner Copy Share Image
Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“On election days, the burdens of poverty and corruption and of a creaky economic system are put aside, and India celebrates. Many… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other… — Robert Kuttner 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
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
I think sociologists are among the best at thinking about emergence, of thinking about the ways that the society is more than… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Women in general, and African American women in particular, are still separated by a veil, albeit an invisible one. As long as… — Patricia Dixon Copy Share Image
“I spent the beginning of my focus on activism by doing what most everyone else was doing; blaming other people and institutions.… — Peter Joseph Copy Share Image
The Genealogical Science is a wonderful account of how old-fashioned race science has come to be re-defined by resort to the most… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
“Many people think that the theory of the selfish gene says that “animals try to spread their genes.” That misstates the facts… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The man who has dedicated himself to the success of the protect, the master builder, no longer has any freedom: his conduct… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
“Under the seeming disorder of the old city, wherever the old city is working successfully, is a marvelous order for maintaining the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“But if it be true, as every prospect assures us, that the human race shall not again relapse into its ancient barbarity;… — Nicolas de Condorcet Copy Share Image
