Quotes About Social structure

the core narrative of how society is organized and how it is reciprocally explained by its inhabitants with reference to a set of collective values deemed appropriate to underpin it.

Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.

The sociology of knowledge has taught us to recognize the fact, which is obvious once it is stated, that in every human society there is what Peter Berger calls a "plausibility structure," a structure of assumptions and practices which determine what beliefs are plausible and what are not. It is easier to see the working of the plausibility structure in a culture of a different time or place than it is to recognize it in one's own.

Republicans need to stay strong on the fact that marriage is between a man and a woman. Those are values that are true to the party and true to who we are. They could focus on jobs and the economy, but we all know that keeping the family structure intact is very important in our country.

Commoners had to prostrate themselves before high-ranking chiefs. All the members of chiefly lineages, bureaucrats, and some craft specialists were freed from the work of food production.

Terimi tam anlam? ile ele al?rsak, hakiki demokrasi hiç bir zaman mevcut olmad??? gibi bundan sonra da olmayacakt?r. Çok say?dakilerin az say?dakileri idaresi tabii nizama ayk?r?d?r.

Es, pues, la familia, si así se quiere, el primer modelo de las sociedades políticas: el jefe es la imagen del padre, y el pueblo es la imagen de los hijos; y habiendo nacido todos iguales y libres, sólo enajenan su libertad por su utilidad misma.

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.

The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he gets older, but it did make me very adaptable. I became aware of what was missing from the social structure of each class that I arrived in, and made sure to fill that gap.

The business of Hollywood, if you don't have other things going on, it will eat you up and spit you out... If you take what those people and that social structure think of you - if you let it govern your life - you might as well just kill yourself.

High school is all about hierarchies, labels, cliques - we are labeled and structured. Everyone goes through it, more or less.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

Modern versions of this argument held that American democracy was born of the slave society of rural Virginia, because slavery gave men like Washington and Jefferson the free time to better themselves and to participate in representative government.)

It is essential to realize that the Christian community in the past was not a pious ideal, but a juridical fact which underlay the social organization of Western culture.

Race preservation is a myth … a myth that you all have lived by—a sordid thing that has arisen out of your social structure. The race ends every day. When a man dies the race ends for him—so far as he's concerned there is no longer any race.

Law and order are always and everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy.

The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.

It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move and live like a rational human being.