Analysis Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image “I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis.” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Analysis Culture Social Tradition
I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I don't want to become a serious, annoying sociologist. I try to regard sociology as a part of everyday life. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I wish I were better at observational or political or social commentary, and I'm just not. — Taylor Tomlinson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs… — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share Image
International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the… — Danny Baker Copy Share Image
Demographically, I'm a hippie from San Francisco and I'm not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to states' rights. My cultural heritage is FDR and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability. — Edward Greenspon Copy Share Image
As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place. — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's… — Michael Ovitz Copy Share Image
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it -… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We are well aware that he spent many hours recently tape recording various messages... we need to do a little more analysis of what… — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image