Sociology Quotes

Globalization is not just about the global; it is also about the national and the local, and the specific ways in which these scales are reconfigured.

Gender is not a thing, but a way of organizing social practice.

Risk society is not an option, it is a destiny.

The 'individual' and 'society' are not two separate entities, but two different aspects of the same human reality.

It is by no means an accident that the concept of ideology emerged in a period of acute social conflict.

Love is the most powerful creative force in the universe. It is the foundation of all true community, all genuine progress, and all lasting happiness.

The problem of sociology is to understand how society works, how it maintains itself, and how it changes.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

Gemeinschaft is the lasting and genuine form of living together, while Gesellschaft is a transient and superficial one.

The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things.

Survival of the fittest.

The problem of explanation is to account for the fact that a person has, over time, engaged in a particular pattern of deviant behavior.

We are not just thinking and feeling beings; we are also feeling and thinking beings.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.

The world-system is not an empire, but a system of states, which are linked together by a division of labor and a hierarchy of power.

The social construction of reality is an ongoing, dynamic process, not a static state.

Society provides us with an identity, a location in the world, a name, a history, a future. We are, in a very profound sense, products of society.

The world of everyday life is the unquestioned, taken-for-granted, and self-evident reality for all of us.

The self, as that which can be an object to itself, is essentially a social structure, and it arises in social experience.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.