Asking Quote by C. Wright Mills

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

I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right…

— Pierre Bourdieu

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

“In my early teens, [my grandfather] would sometimes stomp around his living room, where he used to shave towards mid-day with bowl, brush and…

— Peter Hitchens

“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

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

— Richard Russo

Sociology presupposes a certain awareness that human events have different levels of meaning, some of which are hidden from the consciousness of everyday life

— Anonymous

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

— Clifford Geertz

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

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

— Pierre Bourdieu

If you get the question right, if you really define it, then the answers are just sitting there waiting for you. And it's something…

— Jamie Hyneman

“In this setting modern modern science tends increasingly to become one of two things: either a high form of technology, often with a goal…

— Francis A. Schaeffer