quotes about Sociology
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All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant ra~onale) depends on whether the terms which sociologists employ to describe events can be analyzed into quantifiable observables.
-- Anatol Rapoport -
Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography.
-- Brian Solis -
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We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.
-- Denise Scott Brown -
That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.
-- George Stigler -
One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
-- Graham GreeneSource : Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear”
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People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.
-- Jostein Gaarder -
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With sociology one can do anything and call it work
-- Malcolm BradburySource : Malcolm Bradbury (1978). “Eating people is wrong”, Vintage
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The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
-- Pierre BourdieuSource : Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1999). “On Television”, p.17, The New Press
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Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.
-- Richard Russo -
I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.
-- Richard Wall -
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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.
-- Russell Baker -
Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.
-- Albion Woodbury SmallSource : 1894 An Introduction to the Study of Society (with George E Vincent, 1894).
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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 -
Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.
-- Roselee Goldberg -
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Already I notice a feeling of 'If this be sociology, Good Lord deliver us.' However sociology has endured many things like it and my faith in its ultimate triumph never wavers.
-- Edward Alsworth Ross