Quotes About Sociology

No science of religion (history, psychology, or sociology of religion) understands the reality of religion. Science can know and understand religions without the investigator's belonging to or having faith in any of them. Real faith is not knowable.

These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

When victims are murdered by strangers, young people are more likely to be the perpetrators. "During 1976–1991, only 20 percent of all homicides were between strangers, whereas 34 percent of those committed by male juveniles were between strangers

The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild introduced the notion of "emotional labor.

Jim Cooper, a former LAPD officer turned sociologist, has observed that the overwhelming majority of those who end up getting beaten or otherwise brutalized by police turn out to be innocent of any crime. "Cops don't beat up burglars," he writes. The reason, he explained, is simple: the one thing most guaranteed to provoke a violent reactions from police is a challenge to their right to, as he puts is, "define the situation." (p. 80)

Moral envy is an undertheorized phenomenon.

History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.

the consensus of modern sociology is at presuppositional variance with our Christian view of society. Sociology is one product of a world whose values and structures have been relativized. It is a product of the nineteenth-century rejection of a Christian world-view [sic]. It has assumed an authority of its own using 'society' as its only frame of reference.

Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

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

Les lois des relations humaines nous sont encore inconnues. La sociologie et l'économie politique ne sont que des sciences conjecturales, des pseudo-sciences.

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly.

I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch.

In sociology, they call it 'code switching.' I can feel just as comfortable in a room full of people who don't look like me because I understand the social cues of class and race.

War is a total social phenomenon. In this respect, Clausewitz's analysis is a precursor of Durkheim's sociology. Clausewitz has things to teach us about "mass" violence and contagion.