4 quotes about Sociology



To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
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Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.
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