547 Quotes About Sociology

[Shame] is the core experience of the ethical.

If how people live together changes, then why they get along more than you would suppose also changes.

The difference between the sacred — be it an object or religious method — and the profane is self explanatory (Durkheim 1965:52-54), so let us move on to magic, which I define as production without labor.Sociology of religion: A critical primer(2015; 9780970491923; pg.9)

Religion is the symbolic and/or ritualized cultural system of knowledge, which informs behavior, that offers one means of surviving this complex thing we call ‘Life.’Sociology of religion: A critical primer(2015; 9780970491923; pg.101)

Ritual is a habit and/or a compulsion that at least fulfills one of the following functions: (1) to give worship to a particular divine agent; (2) to invoke remembrance of either a past or future religious event; and/or (3) a pseudo-technology that is used to control or change the believer’s environment.Sociology of religion: A critical primer(2015; 9780970491923; pg.101)

When a society dispenses with God, with the Absolute, and rejects all the binding moral imperatives, the only binding power that remains is sheer physical force itself.

The spectacle does not realize philosophy, it philosophizes reality, reducing everyone’s concrete life to a universe of speculation.

It’s an overreaction, my dear. History goes by swings. People overreact and pass harsh unrealistic laws which attempt to stamp out an essential social process. When this happens, the people who understand have to carry on as best they can until the pendulum swings back.

A depressão é a expressão patológica do fracasso do homem pós-moderno em ser ele mesmo.