Best Sociologists Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.”

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.”

Has Beens Individual Study Psychology Discipline Academic Sociology Sociologists

Author:Richard Wall

“What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade”

Knowing Caring Decades Believer Generous Helpful Psychologist Likelihood Sociologists

Author:Alfie Kohn

“Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.”

Use Government Social Crime Tools Patterns Punishment Severity Sociologists Social Control

Book:The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.”

Ifs Giving Roles Lessons Weapons Sociologists

Author:Pierre Bourdieu

“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.”

Young Language Birth Cult Sociology Sociologists

Book:So this is depravity

Source: So this is depravity

“Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea.”

Problem Asking Solve Sociologists Diarrhea Prescribing

Author:Saul Alinsky

“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.”

Term Class Events Depends Bases Constant Description Sociology Predictable Deductions Sociologists

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.”

Has Beens War Seems Lying Social Poor Behinds Violence Groups Produce Source Research Historical Historian Murderer Avoided Parental Abusive Mothering Sociologists Historical Research

Author:Lloyd deMause

“He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.”

Literature Intellectual Muddle Sociologists

Author:Iris Murdoch

“Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It is one of Europe's oddest countries. Here, in the middle of the twentieth century, with modern technology transforming everybody's lives, you find a medieval mentality that is being dragged painfully into the eighteenth century by some forward-looking people.”

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

Social Fishes Architecture Analysis Architect Sociology Mistrust Sociologists

Author:Denise Scott Brown

“Being a sociologist means never having to be bored”

Mean Bored Sociologists

Author:Randall Collins

“I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or ministers or sociologists. A writer's job, is to, by way of fiction, somehow describe the way we live. And to me, this seems an important task, very worth doing, and I think also, to the reading public, it seems, even though they might not articulate it, it seems to them something worth doing also.”

People Thinking Way Looks Important Seems Might Jobs Reading Fiction Politician Tasks Ministers Telling The Truth Sociologists

Author:John Updike

“A sociologist without an archive is like a person without a memory.”

Persons Memories Archives Sociologists

Author:Raisa Gorbacheva

“Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.”

Economist Physicist Sociologists

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.”

Way Accounts Settling Inclination Marxist Sociologists

Author:Raymond Aron

“I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to people. But that's not my concern. I'm interested in psychology. And also certain philosophical questions about the world.”

People World Made Certain Force Interesting Fiction Novel Psychology Concern Concerned Philosophical Sociology Sociologists Philosophical Questions

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine. I'm sure sociologists can come up with distinctions about what's different between men and women, but for every example you can give about what a woman does, you can come up with an opposite example of other women who don't do that. Those are more artificial distinctions, I think.”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Doe Different Pay Attention Example Men And Women Opposites Come Up Honestly Pay Attention Distinction Feminine Artificial Masculine Sociologists

Author:Wayne Dyer

“All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.”

Should Social Study Serious Communication Threat Devices Psychologist Cement Weakening Sociologists Electronic Devices Social Bonds

Author:Mario Bunge

“I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker.”

Filmmaker Sociologists

Author:Melvin Van Peebles

“I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person.”

Persons Political Scientist Intuitive Sociologists

Author:Anthony Scaramucci

“I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers.”

Knows Children Force Sex Violence Effects Universal Glimpse Consensus Lifelong Camels Smokers Sociologists

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.”

Long Stills Economics Rational Assumption Rejected Utility Psychologist Sociologists

Book:Dangerous currents: the state of economics

Source: Dangerous currents: the state of economics

“Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come to possess things in common. What they must have in common in order to form a community or society are aims, beliefs, aspirations, knowledge - a common understanding - likemindedness as the sociologists say.”

Men Way Form Order Belief Understanding Community Common Virtue Communication Aim Aspiration Sociologists

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.”

Thinking Academic Accountants Sociologists Abacus

Author:Peter S. Prescott

“If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist.”

Ifs Evil Wicked Virtuous Economist Physicist Reborn Sociologists

Author:Paul Krugman

“There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign.”

Firsts Humans Reason Seems Brain Study Design Divine Atheist Obvious Historian Psychologist Surgeons Sociologists Brain Surgeons Neurologists

Book:Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics

Source: Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics

“The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.”

World Problem Mystery Scientist Sociologists Unsolved Problems

Author:Terence McKenna

“Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists.”

Order Exercise Conscious Spells Ads Consumption Pills Comical Hypnotic Subliminal Sociologists

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.”

Felt Photographer Insight Vocation Observers Sociologists

Author:Brassai

“Sociologists say that going to the movies is a bonding experience. It probably has to do with the way you feet stick to the floor.”

Way Feet Sticks Bonding Sociologists

Author:Robert Orben

“People don't talk to each other. You're alone with your television set or internet. But you can't have a functioning democracy without what sociologists call "secondary organizations," places where people can get together, plan, talk and develop ideas. You don't do it alone.”

People Ideas Together Democracy Plans Television Internet Organization Get Together Sociologists

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Well, here you had a city that was selling more cars than ever before, that had this wondrous music being created, that was so vital to the labor and civil rights of this country, and yet it was dying and didn't see it, except for some sociologist at Wayne State University who predicted that Detroit was losing population by a half-million by the end of that '60s decade, and that that trend would continue taking away its tax base.”

“As the popular trust in science fades - and many sociologists say that's happening today - people will develop a distrust of purely "scientific" psychology. Researchers in the universities haven't picked up on this; they're more interested in genetics and computer models of thinking than ever. But, in general, there is a huge distrust of the scientific establishment now.”

People Thinking Today Psychology Havens Huge Computer Models Happenings University Establishment Fades Distrust Genetics Researchers Sociologists

Author:James Hillman

“I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.”

Thinking Giving Feels Humans Hurt Human Beings Emotional Anthropologists Sociologists

Author:Erykah Badu

“Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people will increase the number of pathological gamblers”

People Made Numbers Activity Increase Reports Gambling Acceptable Sociologists

Author:John Warren Kindt

“Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.”

Today Fiction Scientist Science Fiction Historian Great Work Fiction Writers Clueless Sociologists Futurism

Author:Michio Kaku

“One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations.”

Real Problem Association Real Problems Sociologists

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Controlling for all the things that sociologists, economists, and political scientists say you should control for, we find that what drives one's views [most significantly] is race.”

Should Political Views Race Scientist Economist Sociologists

Author:Michael C Dawson

“I never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and yet another to Freud; so it is not possible to give a single definition, one that will exhaust the subject. It is a question bordering on philosophy, and I'm not a philosopher nor a sociologist. My business is to tell stories, to narrate with images - nothing else. If I do make films about alienation - to use that word that is so ambiguous - they are about characters, not about me.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Mean Philosophy Character Stories Use Film Term One Thing Subjects Definitions Philosopher Alienation Ambiguous Hegel Sociologists

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.”

Wells Children Home America Nations Social Causes Behavior Chaos Educational Violent Far Away Topics Scandal Alienation Sociologists Bad Parenting

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.”

Thinking Should Age Months Old Age Corny Computation Sociologists

Book:From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

“Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.”

Thinking Stuff Comedian Questioning Pointing General Public Slow Motion Sociologists Questioning Everything

Author:Steven Wright

“It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people who are concerned with the possible political and social consequences, and that this has been true throughout the ages.”

People Has Beens Age Political Social Moral Technology Consequence Concerned Panic Triggers New Technology Sociologists

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It’s the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it’s the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage.”

“At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.”

States Feelings Might Earth America Practice Modern Objects Calling Defined Curse Conferences Obsessive Manuals Cognitive Reciprocity Jargon Spades Sociologists Restructuring Modern English

Author:Bill Bryson

“It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.”

Kind Opportunity Given Successful Special Tipping Point Sociologists Outliers

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months.”

People Way Said Book Reality Law Political Found Results Numbers Ignorance Months Refuse Deny Protection Fixed Dull Statistics Dozen Unfortunate Mischief Surveys Hysteria Biased Sociologists

Author:Tom Robbins

“By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.”

Men Mean Culture Poor Poverty Experts Poor Man Sociologists Society And Culture

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

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