Analysis Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

If you think it's worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you're not the only one. You suspect that it…

— Lucy Corin

In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal…

— Eden Robinson

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

— Clifford Geertz

In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

“...for recent sociologists the dark secret at the heart of modern individualism is its failure as a mode of life...”

— Lee Patterson

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

Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else…

— Colson Whitehead

I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the…

— David Maraniss

I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis.

— Susan Sontag

I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.

— Matthew Desmond

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've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

— Dan Wakefield