Sociology Quotes

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.

Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant rationale) depends on whether the terms which sociologists employ to describe events can be analyzed into quantifiable observables.

With sociology one can do anything and call it work

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography.

One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.

I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch.

The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism = Sociology.

Already I notice a feeling of 'If this be sociology, Good Lord deliver us.' However sociology has endured many things like it and my faith in its ultimate triumph never wavers.