Quotes about Sociology

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To understand how that astounding moral blindness was possible, it is helpful to think of the workers of an armament pla — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust
In my early teens, [my grandfather] would sometimes stomp around his living room, where he used to shave towards mid-day — Peter Hitchens, The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith
We see the puppets dancing on their miniature stage, moving up and down as the strings pull them around, following the p — Peter Berger
They made a science out of people?" she said. "What a crazy science that must be."--"Mr. Z — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
To recognize and comprehend what influences us and others is to function with purpose. — Mark David Henderson, The Soul of Atlas
We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down. — Philip Pullman
In today's society conformity is more of a necessity than an option. — Johan Coetzer
Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither — B.R. Ambedkar
When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that th — G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. — B.R. Ambedkar
With sociology one can do anything and call it work. — Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man t — B.R. Ambedkar
To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie — J. Jack Halberstam
The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden. — Pierre Bourdieu
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can r — Ulrich Beck
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. — W. H. Auden
If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology. — James Reston
Write about society as news and treat it like sociology. — Clifton Daniel