Boat Quote by Pierre L. van den Berghe

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

— Pierre Bourdieu

I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample…

— Richard Wall

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In…

— Thomas Sowell

Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral…

— Anonymous

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

— Lee Patterson

Already I notice a feeling of 'If this be sociology, Good Lord deliver us.' However sociology has endured many things like it and my…

— Edward Alsworth Ross

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

— Richard Russo

Something extremely lacking in todays socity

— John L

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

— Henri Poincare

I was trying to write a straightforward book of sociological analysis, or at least cultural criticism, and I failed.

— Michael Eric Dyson

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

“As long as the incomes of the various classes of contemporary society remain beyond the reach of scientific inquiry, there can be no hope…

— Thomas Piketty