Top 100 Quotes About Sociology

#1. An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.

Eraldo Banovac

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

Graham Greene

#3. I believe that it is the task of social science to produce nuanced and people-centered forms of knowledge, correcting asymmetries of information and helping to promote, to the best of our ability, informed consent, human protection, and safety in medical and research settings.

Adriana Petryna

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

Steven Pressfield

#5. We are poor indeed if we are only sane.

D.W. Winnicott

#6. Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

Jean Baudrillard

#7. Information and communication technologies have changed the way of life completely. Nowadays, many people reach for their smart phones and/or turn their computers on as soon as they wake up. They look at the news on social networks and check e-mails, before they get dressed or have breakfast.

Eraldo Banovac

#8. The appeal to the 'natural' is one of the most powerful aspects of common-sense thinking but it is a way of understanding social relations which denies history and the possibility of change for the future.

Chris Weedon

#9. It takes centuries for sense to become common

Anthony Steyning

#10. I like to go to Starbucks and watch the intellectuals. I observe them and their intellectualness. They in turn observe me drinking coffee and being a creeper.

Ryan Lilly

#11. In the case of 'The Housewives,' I call the 'Housewives' sociology of the rich. I think it's just fun to watch. It's guilt-free gossiping that you can have. It's like the modern-day soap opera, in my mind.

Andy Cohen

#12. To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.

Polykarp Kusch

#13. In general, sharing and using things decreases their value. However, knowledge increases by implementation and especially by sharing among people.

Eraldo Banovac

#14. Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Dan Hill

#15. That's what happens when you crowd enough folks into the same sandbox: eventually they're gonna start throwing a fit over who gets what part to play with.

Jacob D. Lochner

#16. In reality, there is no highway to success. Therefore, be prepared for difficulties.

Eraldo Banovac

#17. Interests are what drives the actions of individuals at some fundamental level. Furthermore interests are intensely social phenomena. Other individuals have to be taken into account when an actor attempts to realize her interests; there is also the fact that interests are socially defined.

Richard Swedberg

#18. 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 by things that they don't see.'

Sam Richards

#19. 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.

B.R. Ambedkar

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

Denise Scott Brown

#21. Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

Graham Greene

#22. Life is a delicate dance. We live in a society that governs we all get along. The invisible fine print, the unwritten rules and regulations state that we appease to each other's nature and in doing so, we by nature, seek to please.

Katandra Jackson Nunnally

#23. The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity.

Sulak Sivaraksa

#24. Society reproduces itself antagonistically.

Rudolf J. Siebert

#25. History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick

Edward Hallett Carr

#26. Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

George Lucas

#27. My background is sociology. Combined with my graphic approach, if I could do some film projects, I think I'd be very good at making documentaries eventually, but people don't think of me for that, of course. But dialogue is something I know I can be good at.

David Carson

#28. We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

Philip Pullman

#29. 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.

Anais Nin

#30. Do you want to resolve a conflict successfully? Don't wait, start a conversation.

Eraldo Banovac

#31. Be generous, kind and compassionate. These are true characteristics of successful people.

Archie Lee

#32. The appeal by twentieth-century pluralists to scientific method was also ideologically - and even messianically - driven. It ignored scientific data that interfered with environmentalist assumptions and misrepresented socialist faith as "scientific planning.

Paul Edward Gottfried

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

Oscar Wilde

#34. Psychology either tends to glorify human beings or trivialize them, leaving out the complexity of the human soul and the demands of God.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#35. The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.

Charles E. Rosenberg

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

C. Wright Mills

#37. 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.

Pierre Bourdieu

#38. As for 'Dear Friend Hitler,' if it ever gets off the ground it will likely go down in history as little more than a symbol of Bollywood's limitless capacity for poor taste.

Sadanand Dhume

#39. The strictest judges are ignorant people.

Eraldo Banovac

#40. You should be aware of fake friends because it is the hardest to be aware of.

Eraldo Banovac

#41. Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

Paul Nurse

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

Fulton J. Sheen

#43. Oh, great. She could be a hybrid. Just like her sociology teacher's car.

C.C. Hunter

#44. A man's vanity often goes hand in hand with his lack of knowledge.

Eraldo Banovac

#45. One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.

Os Guinness

#46. One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts
they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.

Georg Simmel

#47. I don't really like organizations where people are "deemed" things.

Mindy Kaling

#48. I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.

Charles Horton Cooley

#49. There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

Idries Shah

#50. Being blinded in love and friendship is a common mistake.

Eraldo Banovac

#51. Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.

Hortense Calisher

#52. I really want to go back to school and finish up my sociology degree.

Alicia Sacramone

#53. Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

Richard Russo

#54. You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.

Bob Black

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

C. Wright Mills

#56. The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power to explain what is happening in the world.

Will Hutton

#57. A person with a big ego usually knows very little.

Eraldo Banovac

#58. There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.

Manny Rayner

#59. A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.

Idries Shah

#60. Rather than looking for explanations for why all people deserve to be treated with compassion and respect, we ought to be working at creating a world in which people are treated with compassion and respect. Human rights aren't lying around waiting to be discovered. They're made, not found.

David Livingstone Smith

#61. 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.

James Hillman

#62. Don't think you can act perfectly. A perfect person doesn't exist. Always strive to give your best effort, and that's it.

Eraldo Banovac

#63. My choices were partly conditioned by the two great laws - of biology and sociology - for I do not conceive of myself outside of them ... Inside every biological and social situation I am free to make decisions.

Nina Berberova

#64. 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.

Harrison Salisbury

#65. George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences, sociology, psychology, history, etc. "Don't worry", Stigler said, "they have already have a Nobel Prize in ... Literature"

Robert Kuttner

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

Toni Morrison

#67. Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.

Bob Feller

#68. There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.

Jane Smiley

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

Stephen King

#70. We ... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.

Sherry Turkle

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

B.R. Ambedkar

#72. 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.

Ulrich Beck

#73. I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty
to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

Agatha Christie

#74. The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines.

Michael Eric Dyson

#75. Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

Raegan Butcher

#76. A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales.

Eraldo Banovac

#77. Every psychological explanation comes sooner or later to lean either on biology or on logic (or on sociology, but this in turn leads to the same alternatives).

Jean Piaget

#78. Many Christians with Ph.D.'s have simply absorbed a two-track approach to their subject, treating science or sociology or history as though it consisted of religiously neutral knowledge, where biblical truth has nothing important to say.

Nancy Pearcey

#79. Phule had propounded the theory of the Aryan invasion as the source of oppression; dalit radicals of the 1920s took it to its extreme; Amedkar denied it.

Gail Omvedt

#80. By and large, the poor do not want some small life. They don't want to game the system or eke out an existence; they want to thrive and contribute.

Matthew Desmond

#81. Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

Idries Shah

#82. Before the girl and the boy tie the knot, they feel like falling in love. And most of them do. Cupid works. Biology demands. And, sociology warrants.

Girdhar Joshi

#83. Life on Earth is not the result of a series of miracles performed by a supernatural god-creator, and it is definitely not a product of matter having a mind of its own, of an equally miraculous evolutionary process supervised by Lady Natural Selection who would turn rabbits into lions.

Paul Greene

#84. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both a taste for sociology and a degree of fieldwork experience.

Nick Hornby

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

Henri Poincare

#86. Every society has the criminals that it deserves.

Havelock Ellis

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

Brian Solis

#88. Everything returns and renews itself. The difference now is that the rate of these returns has increased, in both space and time, in an unheard-of fashion. Now my thoughts can circle the globe in minutes. Entire passages of world history are played out in a couple of years.

Frigyes Karinthy

#89. How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error.

Steven Johnson

#90. For some reason I was reluctant to ask anybody what had happened. I hate being the person who always doesn't know what's going on and has to ask somebody; it always seems like everybody else knows what's going on. This is a clear low-status marker, and I resisted it.

David Foster Wallace

#91. Is this World a reality or just a Human perceptions?

Bash

#92. Most people take health at face value. Quite often people understand that health is the most valuable possession only after they become seriously ill.

Eraldo Banovac

#93. Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

Isaac Asimov

#94. Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.

Charles S. Weinblatt

#95. The meaning of man's existence is not to dominate over others, but to better humanity.

Eraldo Banovac

#96. I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch.

Lawrence Jackson

#97. To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie the process of discovery; it blocks one's ability to learn something new that exceed the frameworks with which one enters.

J. Jack Halberstam

#98. I went to the London School of Economics to study sociology and psychology on a serviceman's grant.

Ron Moody

#99. As an explanation tool, the concept of class serves, first and foremost, to clarify who gains and who losses from specific economic processes and policies and with what consequences.

Alejandro Portes

#100. In today's society conformity is more of a necessity than an option.

Johan Coetzer

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