Sociologists Quotes - Page 3

• I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

  Marianne Faithfull

  Father, Horror, Said

  "Marianne Faithfull on life in the '60s". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.stuff.co.nz. February 09, 2013.

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

  Denise Scott Brown

  Analysis, Architecture, Sociology

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• 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.

  Russell Baker

  Language, Birth, Sociology

  Russell Baker (2014). “So This is Depravity”, p.285, Diversion Books

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

  Saul Alinsky

  Asking, Problem, Diarrhea

  "Saul Alinsky: A candid conversation with the feisty radical organizer". Interview with Eric Norden, Playboy, 19 (3), March 1972.

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• 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.

  Lloyd deMause

  War, Lying, Historical

  "The Emotional Life of Nations". Book by Lloyd deMause, 2002.

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• 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.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Country, Technology, Europe

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• 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.

  Michael C Dawson

  Views, Race, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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

  Alfie Kohn

  Caring, Knowing, Helpful

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• The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration of body, mind and soul, the creation of beauty, the mastering of athletics, and the challenge of competition. A French sociologist points this out. "Sports," he wrote, was part of the education of the citizen. He was expected to engage in exercise for a whole series of reasons that had to do with the shaping of the citizen; the relation between moral good and physical good; and the growth of a person.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, Motivation, Exercise

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• These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Science, Technology, Alchemist

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

  Melvin Van Peebles

  Filmmaker

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• Being a sociologist means never having to be bored

  Randall Collins

  Mean, Bored

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• I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.

  Anthony Burgess

  Children, Divorce, Elements

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• A sociologist without an archive is like a person without a memory.

  Raisa Gorbacheva

  Memories, Archives, Persons

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

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Economist, Physicist

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

  Raymond Aron

  Way, Settling, Marxist

  1971 Politics and History.

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• 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.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Philosophical, People, Interesting

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• 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.

  Wayne Dyer

  Men, Thinking, Opposites

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• 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.

  Mario Bunge

  Communication, Serious, Study

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Political, Scientist, Persons

  Source: gawker.com

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