Sociologists Quotes

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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.

One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.

Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.

Sociologists say that going to the movies is a bonding experience. It probably has to do with the way you feet stick to the floor.

Being a sociologist means never having to be bored

One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

A sociologist without an archive is like a person without a memory.

Controlling for all the things that sociologists, economists, and political scientists say you should control for, we find that what drives one's views [most significantly] is race.

Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.

The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person.

I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.

These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.