547 Quotes About Sociology

Shakespeare was a far better psychologist than Freud, and Jane Austen a far better sociologist than Durkheim

People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be - flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design… there came by no process of reason a conviction that they were human beings with feelings akin to his own.

It's weird how we behave how we look like, a sign they stole you.

It's when crisis hits - when the bombs fall or the floodwaters rise - that we humans become our best selves.

Education must enable a man to remove the gaps and see reality as it is and align his perceived reality with the actual reality.

It is unfortunate that some of us worry about losing data but not our thoughts about the data. If we believed in the premises of sociology—that interaction is patterned, that people share meanings, beliefs, and behaviors—then we would trust that the patterns we missed while we were writing will still be there when we return to the field. We are more likely to forget our insights into what we observed.

If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

I knew right there in prison that reading had forever changed the course of my life.

At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it.