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

— Kamaru Usman

I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right…

— Pierre Bourdieu

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

— Pierre Bourdieu

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

— Richard Russo

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

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

“In my early teens, [my grandfather] would sometimes stomp around his living room, where he used to shave towards mid-day with bowl, brush and…

— Peter Hitchens

Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?

— C. Wright Mills

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

I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject.…

— Tom Wolfe

Sociology presupposes a certain awareness that human events have different levels of meaning, some of which are hidden from the consciousness of everyday life

— Anonymous