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• Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.

  Pierre L. van den Berghe

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• At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.

  Gavin de Becker

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• Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.

  Sam Harris

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• Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors – ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.

  Sam Harris

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• I wasn’t a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened.

  Eric Stonestreet

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• Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

  Toni Morrison

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• That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

  George Stigler

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• Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

  Christopher Dawson

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• All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

  Ulrich Beck

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• Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

  Richard Russo

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  Tags in Sociology, Deals, Perception

• There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

  Ralph Ellison

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• History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

  W. H. Auden

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• The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

  Thomas Sowell

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