Sociological Quotes - Page 3

• This is - it's a sociological experiment in many ways. And so you're seeing the results of what happens when you put a lot of boys in a room looking at art history.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Boys, Way

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I think the idea of individualism has become more dominating in our society. You can even see it by our political system: how people vote, the job situation, the sociological evolution that's happening, what's happening in the Middle East and so forth.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that writers should provide an example of how to live. Virginia Woolf ended her life by putting a rock in her sweater one day and walking into a lake. She is not a model of how I want to live my life. On the other hand, the bravery of her syntax, of her sentences, written during her deepest depression, is a kind of example for me. But I do not want to become Virginia Woolf. That is not why I read her.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Virginia, Hands, Sweaters

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I wanted to talk about certain things in a way that I hadn't seen them talked about. There is vast literature about caring for people romantically, about caring for children, but there's not a lot about caring for older people, eldercare. I was searching for a book that would speak to me, that wouldn't be sociological, that would offer some insight, some solace.

  Kyo Maclear

  Children, Book, Caring

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The essence of Ananda is both personal and sociological. Personally for people who seek truth or identities of God, it helps to be with other people who share those ideals. Environment is stronger than willpower, and when you are with people who have high ideals, it helps you to grow in your ideals.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Essence, People, Stronger

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• I started to concentrate more upon how the viewer looks at photographs... I would insert my own text or my own specific reading of the image to give the viewer something they might not interpret or surmise, due to their educated way of looking at images, and reading them for their emotional, psychological, and/or sociological values. So I would start to interject these things that the photograph would not speak of and that I felt needed to be revealed, but that couldn't be revealed from just looking at an image.

  Lorna Simpson

  Reading, Emotional, Giving

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• History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

  Paul Auster

  Character, Talking, Environment

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• I worry about international terror as a method for bringing about political change or sociological change in different countries. And this concerns me because our homeland is not - we see now, is not immune from this kind of dastardly attack. And so I worry about that a lot.

  George H. W. Bush

  Country, Worry, Political

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 4, 2007.

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• I am fully aware of what the word 'fat' means ... It's a swear word. It's a weapon. It's a sociological subspecies. It's an accusation, dismissal, and rejection.

  Caitlin Moran

  Mean, Rejection, Weight

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• Whatever may be the sociological value of the legal fiction that 'all men are born free and equal,' there can be no doubt that...in its biological application, at any rate, this statement is one of the most stupendous falsehoods ever uttered by man through his misbegotten gift of articulate speech.

  Earnest Hooton

  Men, Race, Doubt

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• Some psychological and sociological conditioning occurs in every man's life and this affects the decisions he makes. But we must resist the modern concept that all sin can be explained merely on the basis of conditioning.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Men, Decision, Sin

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the church”

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• I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.

  Julie Delpy

  Humility, People, Littles

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• I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.

  David Maraniss

  Book, Focus, Want

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• Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to look at the sociological literature on poverty, a more complex picture emerges. Poverty and unemployment are part and parcel of our economic order. Without them, capitalism would cease to function effectively, and in order to continue to function, the system itself must produce poverty and an army of underemployed or unemployed people.

  Bob Torres

  Army, Order, People

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• My photography is often a sociological look at American culture and it's been very well published in the UK.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Photography, Culture, Looks

  "Lauren Greenfield: 'It's everything the British love to hate about Americans'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

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• In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result - and therefore a victim... if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes.... or, if you look at it from the sociological perspective, I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result .

  James Hillman

  Past, Race, Class

  "From Little Acorns: A Radical New Psychology". Interview with Scott London, weww.thesunmagazine.org. March 1998.

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• Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a particular sociological doctrine. One may be in favor of that doctrine (as I believe I am) but it is quite another matter to force writers by edicts and censorship into accepting it.

  Neil Postman

  Mistake, Believe, Political

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• I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Writing, Routine, Research

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• Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.

  Ray Bradbury

  Believe, Two, Together

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• The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Historical, Criticism, Important

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• Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Believe, Eye

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

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• New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

  Malcolm X

  New York, Black Youth, White

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.368, Ballantine Books

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• Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Sociological Review revealed that atheists are the least trusted group in America—less trusted, even, than homosexuals. It makes sense at least we trust the homosexuals with our hair.

  Stephen Colbert

  Atheist, Hair, America

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• I certainly want people to read what I've written. Yet, and here's that question of economic position, because I have a secure job, I don't need a wide readership to survive. I'm a participant in the indirect economy, what sociological critic Pierre Bourdieu would call the "economic world reversed." I get "paid" by writing whatever I choose. That's a pretty good position to be in, but I don't pretend for a moment that it is not a privileged one.

  Davis Schneiderman

  Writing, People, World

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the universe -- I think that word would be paradox. That's true at the subatomic level, right through sociological, psychological, philosophical levels on up to cosmic levels.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophical, Reality, Thinking

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