Behavior Quote by Carroll Quigley

“Understanding men or ideas or movements, or the outlooks of individuals or groups, is not reducible to a sociological classification into types of behaviour…

— Isaiah Berlin

In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held…

— B. F. Skinner

The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations in the…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics...…

— Emile Durkheim

“Despite the obvious difficulties when it comes to social systems, social scientists have been very imaginative in devising analogous quantitative experiments to inspire and…

— Geoffrey West

I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life.

— Amitava Kumar

I've always been interested in social psychology and why certain groups of people do things while others don't.

— Jihae

The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Social psychologists confirm that we are likely to perceive people outside our own community as more alike than those within it. We perceive members…

— David Livingstone Smith

Some people are defined by what they do.

— Tom Sturridge

In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably…

— Margaret Mead