Best Sociology Quotes
104 Sociology quotes by 96 unique authors
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I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.
— Richard Wall
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Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get…
— Harrison Salisbury
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These systems attempt to box God into a government confined within the perspective of man. Yet when humanity is used as the starting point for…
— Tony Evans
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In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and succeeds with consummate…
— Robert Anasi
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It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to…
— Nikki Giovanni
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I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as…
— Sebastiao Salgado
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One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning.…
— Os Guinness
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Study the behavior of animals and you will understand human psychology and sociology. Study a flower excited under sunlight, and you will understand how all…
— Suzy Kassem
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Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add,…
— John Maynard Keynes
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That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense…
— George Stigler
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All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
— A J P Taylor
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The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and…
— August Wilson
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Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their…
— Nate Berkus
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One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence of the other.…
— Aldo Leopold
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Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just in the symbolic…
— Jonathan Raban
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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that…
— Jonathan Raban
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I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened…
— Paul Nurse
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Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated…
— Paul Nurse
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I really want to go back to school and finish up my sociology degree.
— Alicia Sacramone
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that…
— Nadine Gordimer
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The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took…
— David Talbot
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It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way. Physiology has realized…
— Alexander Herzen
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The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
— Pierre Bourdieu
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Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.
— Henri Poincare
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The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and…
— Jayne Ann Krentz
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