“I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good. — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.” — Charles S. Weinblatt Copy Share Image
A Separation Sociology produces a Separation Pathology, pathological behaviors of self-destruction, engaged in individually and collectively, and producing suffering, conflict, violence, and… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
“We don’t live in a world that suffers from doubt, but one that suffers from certainty, false certainties that compensate for the… — Les Back Copy Share Image
“A lie distorts the image of reality. It is a delusion of the human mind which can disrupt an individual's sense of… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
“Many arrogant people achieved powerful positions, ignoring people around them, but in the end they failed. They would give anything in the… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and… — Robert Anasi Copy Share Image
“In my early teens, [my grandfather] would sometimes stomp around his living room, where he used to shave towards mid-day with bowl,… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
“At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once thought to make up the very fabric of culture has… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“As with outlaw figures, in diverse musical and oral cultures throughout the world- Mexican corridos and Egyptian shaabi music, for example- Hip… — H. Sammy Alim and Geneva Smitherman Copy Share Image
I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“In the savage horde the most vagabond, as well as in the most civilized nations of Europe, man is only what he… — Jean Itard Copy Share Image
“I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch… — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that power can conquer matter, that the soul makes a mightier truth than the body, that life has a… — Frigyes Karinthy Copy Share Image
“Why Humanities Matter (Sonnet 2443) There's not one but two kinds of knowledge, one is empirical, another is existential. Maths, physics, chemistry,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I’ve always been able to tell a lot about people by whether they ask me about my scar. Most people never ask,… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“Guilty people apologize and also take steps to avoid repetition. Shame, in contrast, is a more global emotion, which can emerge in… — Peter N. Stearns Copy Share Image
When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“We see the puppets dancing on their miniature stage, moving up and down as the strings pull them around, following the prescribed… — Peter Berger Copy Share Image
“Another myth that is firmly upheld is that disabled people are dependent and non-disabled people are independent. No one is actually independent.… — A.J. Withers Copy Share Image
“I think men that have not been in polygamy, and I was one of them, fantasize about polygamy. Fantasize. It is fantasy.… — Patricia Dixon Copy Share Image
“In reality, there is no highway to success. Therefore, be prepared for difficulties.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden. — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.” — Charles E. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“A person who is too proud in love will suffer from the devastating bitterness in the end.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image