Books Quote by Jonathan Lethem

“We have had no polemic interest in writing this book. It would be foolish to deny, however, that our enthusiasm for the present state…

— Peter L. Berger

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

I think sociologists are among the best at thinking about emergence, of thinking about the ways that the society is more than the sum…

— Jonathan Haidt

for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.

— Margaret Atwood

The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or political facts…

— Erich Fromm

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

— Richard Russo

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition,…

— Ralph Ellison

I think the "crime novel" has replaced the sociological novel of the 1930s. I think the progenitor of that tradition is James M. Cain,…

— James Lee Burke

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

— Isaac Asimov

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

I don't want to become a serious, annoying sociologist. I try to regard sociology as a part of everyday life.

— Agnes Varda