547 Quotes About Sociology

A bigot is a bigot by any name, whether sociology likes it or not.

..and there's growing up a scientific church, wherein knowledge, and not humility, labour, and not penance and fasting, are considered essentials

Religion provides a feeling that life is ultimately meaningful. It does so by explaining coherently and compellingly what transcends or overshadows everyday life,in ways that other aspects of culture (such as an educational system or a belief in democracy) cannot (Geertz,1973; Wuthnow, 1988).

The deinstitutionalization of marriage can de described as having occurred in two stages. First the role of marriage expanded from fulfilling societal expectations and sustaining survival to providing companionship. In the second stage, the importance of personal choice and self-development (sometimes through transient relationships) increased at the expense of institutional marriage.

Assim sendo a boa tradução não é impelida pelas motivações do domínio e da aquisição, mas pelo respeito. Tradução é uma palavra que deigna um conjunto de práticas mediante as quais aprendemos a conviver com as diferenças, com a fluidez da cultura e com a instabilidade do eu.

Есть беспощадность в примитивах.У них для правды нет границ -ряды позорно некрасивых,разоблачённых кистью лиц

We are...so far removed from the realities of production and work that we inhabit a dream world of artificial stimuli and televised experience.

To accept life in its disjointed pieces is an adult experience of freedom, but still these pieces must lodge and embed themselves somewhere, hopefully in a place that allows them to grow and endure.

From Fustel de Coulanges to his student, Durkheim, is but a short step. Durkheim's distinction between the sacred and the profane, and his linking of the sacred to the social are but a broadening and systematization of what Fustel had confined to the classical city-state.