547 Quotes About Sociology

It's the intellectual who transforms the concept of the world into the problem of meaning.

There's no reason to assume that all men are bad. Not even all the soldiers are monsters.

Faced with the unfamiliar, we the public have been trained to rely on museums, like schools, to serve up art and culture like pieces of pie: little wedges of esthetics, criticism, politics and history.

Single parents - both women and men - can play as critical a role as the traditional two-parent family, and gay and lesbian parents can, and do, raise happy, resilient children. When it comes to family life, form is not merely as important as content. Feeling loved and supported, nurtured and safe, is far more critical than the 'package' it comes in.

There is no higher priority for those who chose a university career than acting in the students’ best interest. That’s because students are the core of the university.

Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them.

Use two-way communication on oral exams to check the students' knowledge, not their attitudes. Checking attitudes can lead to the slippery area of subjective assessment.

Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology.

So how can you say Jazz started in whorehouses when the musicianers didn't have no real need for them?