sociology Quotes and Quotations
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sociology Quotes and Quotations
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Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television. Michael Apted | top
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. W. H. Auden | top
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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 | top
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Write about society as news and treat it like sociology. Clifton Daniel | top
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Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology. Christopher Dawson | top
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. Ralph Ellison | top
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People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. Clifford Geertz | top
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. Nadine Gordimer | top
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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 | top
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The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology. Agnes E. Meyer | top
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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. Toni Morrison | top
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I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy. Paul Nurse | top
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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 | top
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If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology. James Reston | top
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Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions. Richard Russo | top
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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 | top
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Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth. Albion W. Small | top
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. Thomas Sowell | top
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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 | top
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The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism. David Talbot | top
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Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals. Richard Wall | top
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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 | top
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History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim. Robert Anton Wilson | top