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Quotes by Sociologist
"The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study."
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"I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible."
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"Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history."
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"Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent."
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"Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions."
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"Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others."
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"Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels."
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"Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty."
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"But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance."
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"The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects."
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"Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict."
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"Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?"
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"And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view."
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"If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy."
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"Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule."
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"When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves."
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"Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made."
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"For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships."
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"Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible."
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"Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it."
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"The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education."
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"A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed."
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"In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies."
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"Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history."
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"Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is."
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"So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me."
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"For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth."
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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."
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"If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction."
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"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."
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"The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement."
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"If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge."
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"If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning."
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"The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty."
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"Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information."
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"There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around."
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"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."
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"A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks."
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"Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition."
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"The detached observer's view is one window on the world."
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"Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College."
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"Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf."
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"Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work."
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"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam."
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"The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other."
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"Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon."
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