#sociology

O comportamento ritual não só revela realidades práticas e mundanas, é também um teatro vivo da psicologia colectiva e uma das mais ricas expressões da ideologia e crenças - mentalidade - de uma sociedade. Afinal de contas, como os antropólogos notaram, a religião é mais do que um padrão de relações sociais: é uma expressão da capacidade humana para imaginar a estrutura da sociedade. O ritual religioso não é apenas construção cultural: é uma forma de cognição que constrói modelos de realidade e paradigmas de comportamento. E dentro deste processo pelo qual a realidade é definida, o ritual da morte joga um papel central. ↗

— Victor Turner

#religion #rituals #sociology #death

It takes centuries for sense to become common ↗

— Anthony Steyning

#inspirational #sociology #inspirational

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#art form #black #form #literature #rigorous

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable. ↗

— Graham Greene

#sociology

False fears are a plague, a modern plague! ↗

— Michael Crichton

#sociology

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#sociology

We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. ↗

— Karl Popper

#sociology

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside. ↗

— Stephen King

#sociology #sociology

Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man. ↗

— Richard Matheson

#sociology

They were sorting, or classifying. It's easy-anyone dressed funny is the enemy, especially if they reject your supremacy or do not acknowledge school as entertainment. If the enemy tries to look like you and act like you, only in more affordable clothes, that person is still the enemy, only of a more contemptible, less terrifying variety- ↗

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

#sociology #sociology