Sociology Quotes

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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is… — Ulrich Beck
If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this desperate sociology on… — Frank Zappa
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
Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't… — Lincoln Steffens
The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power to explain what is happening… — Will Hutton
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock… — George Steiner
And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in… — William Kristol
Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is… — Renzo Piano
Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional French… — George Akerlof
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of… — Hannah Arendt
With sociology one can do anything and call it work — Malcolm Bradbury
If you are to do justice to [the great roles], you must fly up to them - rather than dragging them down to you -… — Unknown Author
Social media is about sociology and psychology more then technology. — Brian Solis
More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense, the necessary mandate… — Ordway Tead
Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass… — Anais Nin
Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology. — Christopher Dawson
The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we… — Zygmunt Bauman
I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games… — Nick Hornby
The Genealogical Science is a wonderful account of how old-fashioned race science has come to be re-defined by resort to the most recent developments in… — Talal Asad

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