Sociology Quotations

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.

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, 'Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms.'

I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened.

Bill Phillips was this nervous, chain-smoking student. He had signed up to be an engineer, he had gone away to fight in the Second World War, he had come back. He had switched to sociology because he wanted to understand how people could do these terrible things to each other. And he did a little bit of economics on the side.

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'

IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism=Sociology

Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?

If it comes up in sociology or philosophy as differing views on creation, I think that's appropriate, ... But that doesn't happen until college or maybe later in high school.

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

I went to the London School of Economics to study sociology and psychology on a serviceman's grant.

Look, nobody is born with a sociology degree, and no one can understand all perspectives. Nobody's going to get it all from the very start. But the Internet at least allows everyone to hear these perspectives at a much faster rate than if we had to do it without it.

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

This is really playing out much more like a sociology experiment than a reality show.

It's not so much the law as the sociology of the board. By and large, most people expect they are going to continue with the same management company. You assume it's their fund.

I like Morrie a lot. Like him, I'm a teacher and I'm also Jewish. For some in the academic world, sociology is not considered to be a rigorous science. That may be true, but Morrie must have been a very charismatic guy even if he wasn't the deepest of thinkers. The genius of his insights and how he refined the things he learned in life and passed them along are really what this story is all about.

In 1946, I re-enrolled at the University of Budapest in order to obtain a Ph.D. in philosophy with minors in sociology and in psychology.

Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

A Separation Psychology produces a Separation Sociology, a way of socializing with each other that encourages the entire human society to act as separate entities serving their own separate interests.

With sociology one can do anything and call it work

The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.

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.

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.

Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.