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Quotes by Sociologist
"But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world."
8
"This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge."
8
"For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role."
8
"It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?"
8
"American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions."
8
"Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems."
Fact,
8
"In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority."
8
"Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it."
8
"The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life."
7
"The more a woman likes her job, the better her self-image and the more she enjoys her life."
7
"Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success."
7
"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
7
"You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances."
7
"If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes."
7
"Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals."
7
"Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy."
7
"We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?"
7
"Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?"
7
"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding."
7
"Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government."
7
"The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large, the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inherent nature of the work and the social relationships."
7
"For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests."
7
"The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds."
7
"The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf."
7
"The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board."
6
"Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others."
6
"Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth."
6
"My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world."
6
"It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh."
6
"The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not."
6
"It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to."
5
"Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love."
5
"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."
5
"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."
4
"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
4
"Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society."
3
"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."
3
"It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity."
3
"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication."
2
"Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance."
2
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