Sociologist Quotes

#1. Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and Anat Biletzki, the sociologist Uri Ram, the professor of theatre Avraham Oz and the poet Yitzhak Laor.

Judith Butler

#2. There are in fact no masses," said sociologist Raymond Williams, "there are only ways of seeing people as masses."11

Jeff Jarvis

#3. I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

Erykah Badu

#4. Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.

George Will

#5. the German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky wrote that "absolute power is a structure, not a possession.

Anne Applebaum

#6. I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist.

Edgar Ramirez

#7. If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist.

Paul Krugman

#8. No sociologist, for instance, should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

Max Weber

#9. When we feel like there isn't enough time in the day for us to get everything done, when we wish for more time," wrote sociologist Christine Carter, "we don't actually need more time. We need more stillness.

Arianna Huffington

#10. As the sociologist Daniel Bell later observed, Oppenheimer's ordeal signified that the postwar "messianic role of the scientists" was now at an end.

Kai Bird

#11. I make my way to her table, seeing her eyes growing wider as I do. Ten or so other girls probably just developed instantaneous crushes on me, because they see Carmel likes me. Or so the sociologist in my brain says.

Kendare Blake

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

Raisa Gorbacheva

#13. There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.

Edward Alsworth Ross

#14. People were always ready to yield their
wills, to worship the hero, because they were not given a chance
for developing initiative, stability, and independence, said the great
nineteenth-century Russian sociologist Nikolai Mikhailovsky

Ernest Becker

#15. I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to people. But that's not my concern. I'm interested in psychology. And also certain philosophical questions about the world.

Jonathan Lethem

#16. I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.

Pierre Bourdieu

#17. The sociologist Elise Boulding diagnosed the problem of our times as "temporal exhaustion": "If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imaging the future.

Stewart Brand

#18. If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.

Pierre Bourdieu

#19. I am a sociologist, God help me.

John O'Neill

#20. Being a sociologist means never having to be bored

Randall Collins

#21. I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker.

Melvin Van Peebles

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

Todd Gitlin

#23. In India the choice could never be between chaos and stability, but between manageable and unmanageable chaos, between humane and inhuman anarchy, and between tolerable and intolerable disorder. ASHIS NANDY, sociologist, 1990.

Ramachandra Guha

#24. I am often considered almost not a part of the profession of Establishment economists. I am even referred to as a sociologist. And by that, economists usually do not mean anything flattering.

Gunnar Myrdal

#25. Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea.

Saul Alinsky

#26. I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

Marianne Faithfull

#27. In a devastating critique, the sociologist Pitirim Sorokin once showed that if Terman had simply put together a randomly selected group of children from the same kinds of family backgrounds as the Termites - and

Malcolm Gladwell

#28. As the sociologist Mitchell L. Stevens has put it, "affluent families fashion an entire way of life organized around the production of measurable virtue in children." Measurable, here, means capable of showing up on a college application. We are not teaching to the test; we're living to it.

William Deresiewicz

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

Iris Murdoch

#30. My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business - for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion.

Carmen Busquets

#31. I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are much keener to accept market outcomes than I am, would dismiss me as a crank or - the worst of all abuses among economists - a 'sociologist.'

Ha-Joon Chang

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

Michelangelo Antonioni

#33. The German sociologist Niklas Luhmann once observed that the simple act of asking yourself, "Where did I put my keys?" performs unexpected magic: it transforms the world into a catalog of possible key locations.1 Under the couch, somewhere the dog or the baby moved

Ian Bogost

#34. ...Fei Xiaoton, the University of Chicago - trained Chinese sociologist, once observed, this nation is "a land without ghosts," a place where people are so busy with promises of progress that they have forgotten where they come from and who their ancestors were...

John Kuo Wei Tchen

#35. A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

Dinesh D'Souza

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

Anthony Scaramucci