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Quotes by Sociologist
"For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction."
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"Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific."
3
"It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system."
3
"Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth."
3
"And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically."
3
"Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language."
3
"Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others."
3
"The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy."
3
"Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation."
3
"Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President."
3
"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."
3
"I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him."
3
"The more a woman likes her job, the better her self-image and the more she enjoys her life."
3
"The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement."
3
"If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge."
3
"The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads."
3
"Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment."
3
"When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God."
3
"Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people."
3
"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."
3
"But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism."
3
"The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply."
3
"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.'"
3
"The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war."
3
"The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members."
3
"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."
3
"The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply."
3
"American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets."
3
"America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese."
3
"It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college."
3
"Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally."
3
"Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems."
3
"Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards."
3
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly."
3
"For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual."
3
"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man."
3
"Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move."
3
"The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right."
3
"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."
3
"As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests."
3
"The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil."
3
"Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten."
3
"It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring."
3
"Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training."
3
"It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents."
3
"That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question."
3
"I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways."
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