547 Quotes About Sociology

  • Author Kamila Shamsie
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    Why sociology?’ he said. He shouldn’t have opened the wine – it would only make Terry angrier. There was never anything to be gained from pettiness. ‘I wanted to understand why the world is so unfair.’ ‘Shouldn’t your God give you those answers?’ he said, surprised by the slight teasing of his own tone. ‘Our God did, in a roundabout way.’ ‘How’s that?’ he said. She was pretty when her face was at rest, wiped clean of the encroachment of anxiety. ‘For starters, He created Marx.

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  • Author Pierre Bourdieu
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    El juego político es un asunto de profesionales para impulsar, sobre todo entre la gente menos politizada, un desapego fatalista, favorable, evidentemente, al mantenimiento del orden establecido.

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  • Author Howard S. Becker
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    Good sociology is sociological work that produces meaningful descriptions of organizations and events, valid explanations of how they come about and persist, and realistic proposals for their improvement or removal.

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  • Author Avtar Brah
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    There are those who would find my call for the study of intersectionality as 'old hat', the recitation of a 'mantra'. I would remind them that mantras are designed for repetition precisely because each repetitive act is expected to construct new meanings.

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  • Author Avtar Brah
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    The problem tended to be couched primarily in terms of 'helping the immigrant to adjust to the host society', despite the fact that sections of the 'host society' were acting in rather an un-host-like fashion towards the new arrivals

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  • Author Richard Rothstein
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    When we consider problems that arise when African Americans are absent in significant numbers from schools that whites attend, we say we seek diversity, not racial integration. When we wish to pretend that the nation did not single out African Americans in a system of segregation specifically aimed at them, we diffuse them as just another people of color.

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  • Author حسين أحمد أمين
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    وجدت معظم الطبقات في تطوير التشريعات المدنية والتجارية ما يخدم مصالحها، وفي تطوير الأحكام الجنائية ما لا يمس مصالحها من بعيد أو قريب، فدفعها ذلك إلى تجاهل مناقضتها للأحكام القرآنية، أما التخلي عن المفاهيم والقوانين التي تجعل المرأة في حكم الأمة للرجل، فمعناه تخلي الرجل في مجتمعنا المصري عن المجال الوحيد المتبقي له للتنفيس عما يشعر به من قهر، وبالتالي فقد رآه الرجل وثيق الصلة بالإسلام، واعتبروا مقاومته واجباً مقدساً يحتمه الدين

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