Quotes by Sociologists

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real. C. Wright Mills
Revolution Every Sign Real
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society. Charles Horton Cooley
People Society Solid Facts Another Which Imaginations
We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us. Marshall McLuhan
Tools Our Shape Afterwards Us
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. Marshall McLuhan
Singing Wolf Hood Eaten Objection Red Commercials Modern Being Little Riding
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. Marshall McLuhan
Think Spells Backward About Diaper
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him. Marshall McLuhan
Man World Big Administrator Touch Inspires Abstraction Feel Merging Him Terror Real His Person Real Person Bureaucratic Who Things
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude. Peter L. Berger
Today People Fault Pretense Uncertainty Between Lines Different Hold Different Beliefs Certitude Who Element Beliefs Basic
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction. Auguste Comte
Life Collective Real Life Only Except Individual Individual Life Abstraction Real Existence Race
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. Charles Horton Cooley
Work Tired Mind Own Suicide Mood Hopeful Criticize Except Never Fresh His Should
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds. Charles Horton Cooley
Life Great Natural Illusion Minds Seeing Variety Idea Obvious Doing Dull Going Place Means Things
Mothers subject their daughters to a level of scrutiny people usually reserve for themselves. A mother's gaze is like a magnifying glass held between the sun's rays and kindling. It concentrates the rays of imperfection on her daughter's yearning for approval. The result can be a conflagration - whoosh. Deborah Tannen
People Result Mother Daughter Gaze Approval Sun Daughters Magnifying Imperfection Glass Rays Between Like Mothers Yearning Subject Scrutiny Themselves Held Reserve Her Level
Where the daughter sees power, the mother feels powerless. Daughters and mothers, I found, both overestimate the other's power - and underestimate their own. Deborah Tannen
Mother Daughter Power Own Other Sees Both Daughters Feels Underestimate Powerless Overestimate Mothers Where Found
A sister is someone who owns part of what you own: a house, perhaps, or a less tangible legacy, like memories of your childhood and the experience of your family. Deborah Tannen
Family You Memories Experience Sister Own Someone Part Like Perhaps House Tangible Legacy Childhood Owns Your Less Who
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. Ivan Illich
Health People Medicine Sick Negation More Only More People Institution Heals Makes Itself Than Modern Human Human Health Organized Serve Medical
Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. Jean Baudrillard
Paradise Other Monotonous Though Superficial Mournful May Just Barbara Disneyland Santa
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. Jean Baudrillard
You Man Woman Stove Nothing TV TV Set Dreaming More Mysterious Himself Talking Another Empty Left Than Room Communicating Planet Stranger Standing Even Her Set
Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. Jean Baudrillard
Wonderful Teeth Identity American May
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. Kelly Miller
Truth Justice Injustice Progress Path Cruelty Mercy See Never Taken Wrong Forces Course Always Line Been Error Conflicting Straight Straight Line Right Right And Wrong Zigzag
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. Marshall McLuhan
Technology World Independence New Global Global Village Electronic Village Image
Home is where children find safety and security, where we find our identities, where citizenship starts. It usually starts with believing you're part of a community, and that is essential to having a stable home. Matthew Desmond
Home You Safety Community Starts Our Security Citizenship Find Having Part Identities Essential Stable Where Children Believing
During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks. William Julius Wilson
Depression Great Problems Society Unlike Great Depression Those Faced Blacks Disadvantaged Had Most Were Effect Times American African African Americans Experienced Poor Really Hard Whites Hard Times Groups Leveling
Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis. Zygmunt Bauman
Terrorism Genocide World Fear Flu Collective Live Frail Civilisation Disaster Orderly Which Ice Skating Thin
Know yourself to improve yourself. Auguste Comte
Yourself Know Know Yourself Improve
Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them. Auguste Comte
Science Determination Every Others Relations Indeed Object True Between True Science Exist Accordance Which Them Certain Means Phenomena
Demography is destiny. Auguste Comte
Destiny
The dead govern the living. Auguste Comte
Living Dead Govern
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