“Many, and I think the determining, constitutive facts remain outside the reach of the operational concept. And by virtue of this limitation this methodological injunction against transitive concepts which might show the facts in their true light and call them by their true name the descriptive analysis of the facts blocks the apprehension of facts and becomes an element of the ideology that sustains the facts. Proclaiming the existing social reality as its own norm, this sociology fortifies in the individuals the "faithless faith" in the reality whose victims they are.” ThinkingFactsShowsRealityLightMightNamesIndividualSocialVirtueElementsConceptsVictimBlockIdeologyLimitationAnalysisNormSociologyApprehensionProclaimingFaithless Book:One dimensional man: studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society Source: One dimensional man: studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society
“After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.” MayMadeNextSocialTermViewsPhysicsSociologyProceedingMontesquieu Book:The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte Source: The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte
“We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.” SocialFishesArchitectureAnalysisArchitectSociologyMistrustSociologists Author:Denise Scott Brown
“my choices were partly conditioned by the two great laws - of biology and sociology - for I do not conceive of myself outside of them. ... Inside every biological and social situation I am free to make decisions.” TwoLawChoicesSocialDecisionSituationBiologySociology Author:Nina Berberova
“History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick” IfsTodaySocialProcessSickFundamentalsEtcOur SocietyAbandonSociologyAnthropologySocial ScienceAllergicProcess Of Change Author:Edward Hallett Carr
“Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual. There is no principle for which we have received more criticism; but none is more fundamental. Indubitably for sociology to be possible, it must above all have an object all its own. It must take cognizance of a reality which is not in the domain of other sciences... there can be no sociology unless societies exist, and that societies cannot exist if there are only individuals.” IfsFactsRealityIndividualSocialPrinciplesPracticeObjectsCriticismMethodFundamentalsSociologyDomainBasic PrinciplesSociological Author:Emile Durkheim