547 Quotes About Sociology

To have autonomy without interdependency leads to isolation or narcissism. To have interdependency with no autonomy stunts our psychological growth. Healthy people live in social groups that have learned to balance or, better, marry these two imperatives.

There are risks in overstating individuals' freedoms and responsibilities, and then assuming they can and should shape their own lives, and bear all the blame when they fail. This model denies great inequalities in people's skill, knowledge, status and resources.

إذا لا تملك القدرة لكي تعبر عن عواطفك لغيرك, ولاتسطيع أن تسيطر على سلبيات الإنفعال العصبي ، و إذا لم تكن قادر على إدارة العواطف المؤلمة والخاصة بك ، أو لاتملك الحساسية للتتعاطف مع غيرك ، فأنت إذا لا تملك الوعي الذاتي مهما كنت ذكيا, وبعيد عن أي أمر يمكن أن يكون التعاطف في علاقات فعالة .

Older people sometimes talk about the good old days when life was better. In fact, they talk nostalgically about their own youth that was irretrievably gone. The past century has made enormous progress in all fields. The standard of living, work environment, health care quality and mobility, and the availability of cultural programs, recreational activities and information – all that clearly speaks in favor of nowadays.

The F.B.I. and the C.I.A. and the I.R.S. all combined can't turn up a thing I got, beyond a car to drive and a seven-room house to live in.

I had heard for years of Muslim hospitality, but one couldn't quite imagine such warmth.

That morning was when I first began to reappraise the "white man." It was when I first began to perceive that "white man," as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions. In America, "white man" meant specific attitudes and actions toward the black man, and toward all other non-white men. But in the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been.

Life is a delicate dance. We live in a society that governs we all get along. The invisible fine print, the unwritten rules and regulations state that we appease to each other's nature and in doing so, we by nature, seek to please.

The world is already in order. We do not need any ‘ism’ to bring order in the society. Everything in the world is in order and exists for a purpose.