547 Quotes About Sociology

When people criticize me for not having any respect for existing structures and institutions, I protest. I say I give institutions and structures and traditions all the respect that I think they deserve. That's usually mighty little, but there are things that I do respect. They have to earn that respect. They have to earn it by serving people. They don't earn it just by age or legality or tradition.

When you love someone you have chosen to relinquish a part of yourself in order to inherit a part of them, and what perpetuates that love is the feeling of confident appreciation for such a potentially debilitating trade. That's why heartbreak feels like a sudden void.

What you think can determine what you can achieve! So think big to achieve great things!

Lex Rex has become Rex Lex. Arbitrary judgment concerning current sociological good is king

Very few politicians, who have chosen a political career, can fulfill the aspirations and survive the strains of an elevated office that in a monarchy was filled so randomly. Each tsar had to be simultaneously dictator and supreme general, high priest and Little Father. They required all the qualities listed by the sociologist Max Weber: the personal gift of grace, the virtue of legality, and "the authority of the eternal yesterday.

We are poor indeed if we are only sane.

YOU ARE WHAT YOU TWEET!

Los dilemas y las incertidumbres que las sociedades diseñan para sus miembros suelen venir acompañados de estrategias y herramientas para su resolución socialmente respaldadas y recomendadas. El consumismo es una de esas respuestas a "cómo afrontar" el reto planteado por la sociedad de individuos.

Mientras que los beneficiarios de nuestra peligrosamente desequilibrada, inestable y poco equitativa globalización consideran su libertad sin freno el mejor medio para alcanzar su propia seguridad, sus víctimas directas o colaterales sospechan que su mayor obstáculo para ser libres (y para hacer uso de cualquier libertad que se les pudiera conceder) radica en la inseguridad, que viven como algo horrible y lamentable.