Sociology Quotes

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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

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

The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

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 to use it for unfair attacks.

With sociology one can do anything and call it work

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

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

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.

Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography.

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.

Social media is about sociology and psychology more then technology.

Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

I had a certain kind of disassociation from the other kids because I had more interest in sociology, ideas and trying to communicate those ideas to the kids around me.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

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

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.

Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

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

Language is a social art.

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

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.

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

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

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.