Top 192 Sociology Quotes & Sayings

I'm a huge feminist, I majored in sociology at college, and I care about what I put into the world.

I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Social media is about sociology and psychology more then technology.

Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.

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

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

With sociology one can do anything and call it work

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

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

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.

I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company which publishes seven professional economic newsletters), of being ignorant of sociology (although I am trained in sociology and was C. Wright Mills' research assistant at Columbia), of being unable to use statistics (although I earned my living as a professional statistician for five years) and of ignoring political factors (although all my graduate training was in political science).

I see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty.

I went to a branch of the City of Westminster College in Maida Vale to do drama, sociology and English literature. I stayed for three or four months.

Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.

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

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

I would have liked to have been a professor of sociology.

I really want to go back to school and finish up my sociology degree.

My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'

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.

The way forward does not lie in amateur and comically timeless linguistic sociology which takes 'forms of life ' for granted (and this is what philosophy has been recently), but in the systematic study of forms of life which does not take them for granted at all. It hardly matters whether such an inquiry is called philosophy or sociology.

The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or political facts provide the real and sufficient explanation of sociological questions. On the other hand, the psychoanalyst must emphasize that the subject of sociology, society, in reality consists of individuals, and that it is these human beings, rather than abstract society as such, whose actions, thoughts, and feelings are the object of sociological research.

Sociology is really in trouble as a field. I can tell you, because I've known young people who have wanted to go into it, and they have been uniformly advised, if you are a free thinker, stay away from sociology.

My undergraduate degree is in geography and sociology, so I had like no real training with words.

Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

My first semester of college, I'm going to sociology and English and psychology, and all I cared about was getting home and preparing for whatever audition I had.

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

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

I don't want to become a serious, annoying sociologist. I try to regard sociology as a part of everyday life.

I went to the London School of Economics to study sociology and psychology on a serviceman's grant.

That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

A woman might be from higher sociology economic background and in a high powered profession but may be enduring severe violence at home.

My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

I took a sociology class, and I got an A in it. Then I found out you could get an emphasis in criminal justice. I wanted to be an administrator.

Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.

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.

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

Opportunism towards knowledge is a utilitarian demand that knowledge must be immediately practical. Just like with sociology where we hope its purpose is to serve society, however, the true purpose of sociology lies in its impracticality. It cannot become practical or else it loses its meaning. Perhaps we should learn a different kind of knowledge: the knowledge to question knowledge.

It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way. Physiology has realized its problem with fortitude, breaking man down into endless actions and counteractions and reducing him to a crossing, a vortex of reflex acts. Let it now permit sociology to restore him as a whole. Sociology will wrest man from the anatomical theatre and return him to history.

There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.

In 1946, I re-enrolled at the University of Budapest in order to obtain a Ph.D. in philosophy with minors in sociology and in psychology.

Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.

I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened.

I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

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

Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.

I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids.

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.

I love to study people, and that's basically what sociology is.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

I studied psychology and sociology. I think my assumption was that I would go to graduate school, and I don't know what I was going to do after that.