547 Quotes About Sociology

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A knowledge both of the factors of evolution and how they operate in human society becomes necessary if we are to develop a sound social order.

Religion is an ancient method of governing.

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

Every society has the criminals that it deserves.

The need to imitate that the consumer experiences is truly an infantile need, one determined by every aspect of his fundamental disposession. In terms used by Gabel to describe quite another level of pathology, "the abnormal need for representation here compensates for a torturing feeling of being at the margin of existence".

Objectivity, in this sense, means that a person's statements about the world can be trusted if they are submitted to established rules deemed legitimate by a professional community. Facts here are not aspects of the world, but consensually validated statements about it.

It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of knowledge is reliable. It is also a moral philosophy, a declaration of what kind of thinking one should engage in, in making moral decisions. It is, moreover, a political commitment, for it provides a guide to what groups one should acknowledge as relevant audiences for judging one's own thoughts and acts.

we should not say that an act offends the common consciousness because it is criminal, but that it is criminal because it offends the common consciousness