“The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.” WorldSocialScientistAspirationGossipPrivilegedRumorTemperatureAnthropologists Author:James C. Scott
“I always believed that social science was a progressive profession because it was the powerful who had the most to hide about how the world actually worked and if you could show how the world actually worked it would always have a de-masking and a subversive effect on the powerful. I don't think that's quite true, but it seems to me it's not bad as a point of departure anyway.” IfsThinkingWorldShowsSeemsSocialPowerfulEffectsProfessionProgressiveAlways BelieveDepartureSubversiveSocial Science Author:James C. Scott
