#sociology

Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc. ↗

— Émile Durkheim

#sociology

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#family

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology. ↗

— James Reston

#close #far #far away #home #news

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#any #been #black #black music #closer

To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

#children #creating #economics #enormous #genuinely

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

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Believe it or not, some of us have piercings and tattoos and dye our hair because we think it looks pretty, not for any deep sociological reason. This isn't an act of protest against cultural or social repression. It's not a grand, deliberately defiant gesture against capitalists or feminists or any other social group. It's not even the fashion equivalent to sticking two fingers up at the world. The boring truth of it, Gabriel, is that I don't dress like this to hurt my parents or draw attention to myself or make a statement. I just do it because I think it looks nice. Disappointed? ↗

— Alex Bell

#piercings #tattoos #sociology

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up. ↗

— Stephen King

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Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology. ↗

— Christopher Henry Dawson

#history #sociology #religion

They made a science out of people?" she said. "What a crazy science that must be." --"Mr. Z ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#sociology #science