Best Sociology Sayings
104 Sociology quotes by 96 unique authors
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In the case of 'The Housewives,' I call the 'Housewives' sociology of the rich. I think it's just fun to watch. It's guilt-free gossiping that…
— Andy Cohen
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Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister…
— Richard Wall
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As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m interested in the…
— Ava DuVernay
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People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
— Clifford Geertz
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here…
— Ralph Ellison
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Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there…
— Sam Harris
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Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their…
— Daniel Kahneman
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I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban…
— Jeremy Lin
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Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing…
— George Lucas
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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
— Toni Morrison
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Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.
— Richard Russo
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There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are…
— Jane Smiley
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
— Thomas Sowell
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History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is…
— Flannery O'Connor
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
— Graham Greene
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One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
— Graham Greene
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
— Graham Greene
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People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.
— Jostein Gaarder
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And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.
— Stephen King
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The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
— Stephen King
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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
— Oscar Wilde
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Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.
— Ray Bradbury
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False fears are a plague, a modern plague!
— Michael Crichton
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