Best Sociology Quotations
104 Sociology quotes by 96 unique authors
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Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the…
— Kathryn Stockett
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The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history…
— Isaac Asimov
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My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.
— Emile Durkheim
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That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.
— Malcolm Gladwell
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We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.
— J. B. Priestley
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Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re…
— Ray Bradbury
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I’ve always been able to tell a lot about people by whether they ask me about my scar. Most people never ask, but if it…
— Tina Fey
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We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the…
— Karl Popper
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Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.
— Jean Baudrillard
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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely…
— Gore Vidal
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George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences, sociology,…
— Robert Kuttner
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Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they…
— Rafael Vinoly
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The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history,…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular…
— Sam Abell
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I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never…
— Lawrence Jackson
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Bill Phillips was this nervous, chain-smoking student. He had signed up to be an engineer, he had gone away to fight in the Second World…
— Tim Harford
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At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international relations…
— Antony Beevor
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I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.
— Gloria Gaither
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Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.
— Dan Hill
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Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.
— Clifton Daniel
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Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.
— Michael Apted
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The first word is the last word.
— Ambel Panganiban Pitel
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