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Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

— Richard Russo

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

— Pierre Bourdieu

My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped…

— Sam Richards

Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which…

— Erich Fromm

Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.

— Talcott Parsons

I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject.…

— Tom Wolfe

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something…

— Zygmunt Bauman

“We have had no polemic interest in writing this book. It would be foolish to deny, however, that our enthusiasm for the present state…

— Peter L. Berger

We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance,…

— Jamake Highwater

The way forward does not lie in amateur and comically timeless linguistic sociology which takes 'forms of life ' for granted (and this is…

— Ernest Gellner

“As the mind of the individual develops within various contexts, such as the family or different educational institutions, it seeks out those various and…

— Steven Grosby

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its…

— C. Wright Mills