Eye Quote by Richard Wall

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

— Richard Russo

“Even in the most favourable periods for cultural development , Intellectuals tend to have uneasy relationship with the status quo.”

— Frank Furedi

“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

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.

— Pierre L. van den Berghe

There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect…

— Kwame Nkrumah

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

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

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

The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the…

— Pierre Bourdieu

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

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

— Eugenio Montale

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

— Susan Sontag