George C. Homans quotes

George C. Homans quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.”
-- George C. Homans

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“It is really intolerable that we can say only one thing at a time; for social behavior displays many features at the same time, and so in taking them up one by one we necessarily do outrage to its rich, dark, organic unity.”
-- George C. Homans

Source : 1961 Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms.

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“The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.”
-- George C. Homans

Source : 1974 Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms (rev edn).

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