Law Quote by Frank Knight

With sociology one can do anything and call it work

— Malcolm Bradbury

I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right…

— Pierre Bourdieu

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

— Richard Russo

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

Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities…

— Emile Durkheim

Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.

— Hortense Calisher

Sociology is really in trouble as a field. I can tell you, because I've known young people who have wanted to go into it,…

— Amy Wax

My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped…

— Sam Richards

One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more…

— Os Guinness

Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.

— Henri Poincare

I love to study people, and that's basically what sociology is.

— Kamaru Usman

Law practice is the exact opposite of sex:even when it's good, it's bad.

— Mortimer Zuckerman