Friday, February 23, 2007

Number-One Sociological Quotes

We are evolving in the direction of a world dominated by science. (Auguste Comte)

The world is moving in the direction of increasing order and harmony. (Herbert Spencer)

Capitalism is based on the exploitation of the workers by the capitalists. (Karl Marx)

The modern world offers less moral cohesion than earlier societies did. (Emile Durkheim)

The modern world is an iron cage of rational systems from which there is no escape. (Max Weber)

The city spawns a particular type of person. (Georg Simmel)

Gender inequality explains most of the ills in society, individual experience, and history. (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

Knowledge is shaped by the social world. (Karl Mannheim)

People’s minds and their conceptions of themselves are shaped by their social experiences. (George Herbert Mead)

In their social relationships, people often rely on tried and true “recipes” for how to handle such relationships. (Alfred Schutz)

Society is an integrated system of social structures and functions. (Talcot Parsons)



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