Quotes by Sociologists

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. Marshall McLuhan
Politics Happy Will Politician Too Favor Abdicate More Only Could He Powerful Because His Replaced Than Much Eventually Ever Image Imagery
We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. Marshall McLuhan
Become Tools Our Shape Behold Then Us
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. Marshall McLuhan
Everything Say Agree Necessarily
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. Marshall McLuhan
Dangerous Luxury Understanding Insight Point Point Of View View
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror. Marshall McLuhan
Future Mirror Drive Our Only Rearview Rearview Mirror Using
A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life. Deborah Tannen
Life You Yourself Sister Stars Like Different Movie Different Life
Art is anything you can get away with. Marshall McLuhan
Art You Get Anything Away
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. Marshall McLuhan
Today Club Market Tyrant Ways Rules He Comfort Shepherds His Fist Disguised Researcher Utility Flock
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. Marshall McLuhan
Education Entertainment First Distinction Tries About Between Know Make First Thing The First Thing Anyone Either Who Thing
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. Marshall McLuhan
Values Our Our Lives Arbitrary Perceptions Invest Exist Artificial Media Lives
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life. Todd Gitlin
Life Patriotism Made Nationalism Believe Other Rule Way Distinction Ways Fuzzy Insistence Attachment Between Over Real Which Should Your Deserves
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Daniel Bell
Art Technology Imagination Like Exercise Human Soaring Human Imagination
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. Lewis Mumford
Life Truth Day Beauty Spent Sight Mystery Perfection Days Contemplation Without Sound Human Human Life Succession Search Fatal
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. Marshall McLuhan
Technology Communication Result Consequences Medium Our Say Scale Ourselves Introduced Merely New Message Affairs New Technology Personal Any Social Each Extension
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. Marshall McLuhan
Art Culture Old Beginning Distant System Tell Significant Most Always Happen Warning Early
It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives. Todd Gitlin
People Old Care Own Anarchist Dream Take Take Care Lives
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. William Julius Wilson
Best Leadership Character Perseverance Creativity Doctor Will Lawyer Well Tests Person Measure Who Businessman Sat Necessarily
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. Charles Horton Cooley
Man Eyes Mind Cowardly Other Seem Share Judgments Always Refined Brave Ashamed Straightforward Gross Evasive Presence Imagine Imagining
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership. Faye Wattleton
Leadership Only Safe Ship Storm
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. Georg Simmel
Life Culture Problems Face Overwhelming Heritage Claim Individual Individuality Forces His Existence Historical Modern Modern Life Autonomy Social Derive Deepest Technique External Preserve
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. Jean Baudrillard
Funny Revenge World Halloween Nothing About Rather Adult Demand Festival Reflects Infernal Children Sarcastic
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. Marshall McLuhan
World Valuable Collective Own Unity Increasingly Our Insight Rather Direction Purposes Most Becomes Real Affair Provide Than Modern Arts Modern World Social Means Techniques Technological
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. Zygmunt Bauman
Service Freedom Lost Sight Something Individual Come Task Help Sociology
We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation. Zygmunt Bauman
Life You Communication Yourself People World Humiliation Crime Live Else Dignified Everyone Everyone Else About Proper Over Gets Just Decent Being Door Information Next Next Door Compare Comparison Universal Presented
Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals. Ann Oakley
Good Mother Dedication Good Mother Clean Individuals Development Qualities Call Tidy Housewife Does Override Same May Being Children Interest Separate Keeping
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited. C. Wright Mills
Try Men Live Visions Directly Bounded Powers Limited Private Ordinary Which Ordinary Men Aware
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