Academic Quote by Richard Wall

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

— Kamaru Usman

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

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

— Henri Poincare

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

If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.

— Pierre Bourdieu

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

— Agnes Varda

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

“In this setting modern modern science tends increasingly to become one of two things: either a high form of technology, often with a goal…

— Francis A. Schaeffer

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

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

What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more pragmatic about…

— Thomas Piketty

I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to…

— Jonathan Lethem