To customs and beliefs, the very ones we hold sacred, sociology ruthlessly attaches the adjective 'arbitrary'.
It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychology and sociology.
What is it about sociology that instantly bogus down in fens of jargon?
Economics is all about how people make choices. Sociology is all about why they don't have any choices to make.
Sociology is a new science concerning itself not with esoteric matters outside the comprehension of the layman, as the older sciences do, but with the ordinary affairs of ordinary people. This seems to engender in those who write about it a feeling that the lack of any abstruseness in their subject matter demands a compensatory abstruseness in their language.
Sociology is the science of talk, and there is only one law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.
With all allowance made for Marx's erudition and his historic impact upon the social sciences, especially sociology, it is as an art united with prophecy, virtually religious prophecy, that Marxism survives.
Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.
Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.
-van den Berghe, Pierre L
'From the Popocatepetl to the Limpopo', collected in Bennett Berger (ed) Authors of their Own Lives (1990).
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 quotes (South African novelist and short-story writer, 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, b.1923)
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
Marilyn Manson
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
Lippmann, Walter
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 quotes (South African novelist and short-story writer, 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, b.1923)
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
Marilyn Manson
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
Lippmann, Walter
A good Christian is a good atheist, a good atheist is a good Christian. I'm a Christian.
Prof. Gerry Lanuza
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden
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