Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography. — Brian Solis Copy Share Image
“Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.” — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Much of modern sociology lacks a paradigm and consequently fails to qualify as science.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is said that man is wolf to man. I find this very unfair to wolves.” — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“The best advice will come from the person who has no personal interest in the matter.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened. — Eric Stonestreet Copy Share Image
“Show me a culture where honesty is considered ridiculous, where nobody's ever accountable for anything, where anger gets admired as a sign… — Anthony Steyning Copy Share Image
“Use two-way communication on oral exams to check the students' knowledge, not their attitudes. Checking attitudes can lead to the slippery area… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because… — Harrison Salisbury Copy Share Image
We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry. — Denise Scott Brown Copy Share Image
The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power to explain… — Will Hutton Copy Share Image
That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
The theme of corporate stories (and millions drink them in every day) seldom varies: to be happy you must consume, to be… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“...the pedigree of people, their family members, where they come from, and what you desire and project where you want to see… — Patricia Dixon 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
“I know how easy it is to sound like a corny version of Noam Chomsky when talking about something like this, but… — Dito Montiel Copy Share Image
Opportunism towards knowledge is a utilitarian demand that knowledge must be immediately practical. Just like with sociology where we hope its purpose… — Wang Jianwei 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
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
“Miss Taylor says kids that are colored can't go to my school cause they're not smart enough." I come round the counter… — Kathyrn Stockett Copy Share Image
“You want to know what I really learned? I learned that people don’t consider time alone as part of their life. Being… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“As social phenomena, languages are tied up in world of unequal power relations, gaining or losing status not based on technical linguistic… — H. Sammy Alim and Geneva Smitherman 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“Equality of condition and equality of opportunity must provide the foundation of an interdependent nation with building blocks found in dignity and… — Julie Banks Lewis Copy Share Image
The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Sociology is really in trouble as a field. I can tell you, because I've known young people who have wanted to go… — Amy Wax Copy Share Image
“When choosing a profession, a person will have good incentive for personal development by choosing such a profession that represents a personal… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
“Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
Sociology presupposes a certain awareness that human events have different levels of meaning, some of which are hidden from the consciousness of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The development of civilization was marked by constant changes. This will continue – therefore, the future will belong to people ready for change.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
In the case of 'The Housewives,' I call the 'Housewives' sociology of the rich. I think it's just fun to watch. It's… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
