Sociologist Quotes
Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.
Lewis Mumford
American historian
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
Marshall McLuhan
Canadian philosopher
It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
Jean Baudrillard
French sociologist, philosopher
If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.
Michael Schudson
Professor
I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.
Matthew Desmond
Sociologist
War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.
Lewis Mumford
American historian
If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.
Matthew Desmond
Sociologist
Twitter has made a huge, positive difference in my life, and changed the landscape of politics in multiple countries I studied, including my home country, Turkey.
Zeynep Tufekci
Turkish-American sociologist
Ability to disseminate one's ideas on the Internet is now a sine qua non of inclusion in the global public sphere. However, the Internet is not a true public sphere; it is a public sphere erected on private property, what I have dubbed a 'quasi-public sphere,' where the property owners can sideline and constrain dissent.
Zeynep Tufekci
Turkish-American sociologist
Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
Peter L. Berger
Austrian-American sociologist
The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.
Kenneth L. Pike
American linguist
Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.
Leo Bogart
American sociologist
Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy.
Kelly Miller
American mathematician
I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.
Kenneth L. Pike
American linguist
Silicon Valley engineers and employees may well be overwhelmingly liberal, but Facebook is run by the algorithms they program, which optimize for the way the site makes money, rather than sifting through posts one by one.
Zeynep Tufekci
Turkish-American sociologist
You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.
Matthew Desmond
Sociologist
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Marshall McLuhan
Canadian philosopher
Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.
Michael Schudson
Professor
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
Marshall McLuhan
Canadian philosopher
The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.
Georg Simmel
German sociologist
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