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But into the first decades of the twentieth century, even at the New York Times, it was uncommon for journalists to see a sharp divide between facts and values. Yet the belief in objectivity is just this: the belief that one can and should separate facts from values. Facts, in this view, are assertions about the world open to independent validation. They stand beyond the distorting influences of any individual's personal preferences. Values, in this view, are an individual's conscious or unconscious preferences for what the world should be; they are seen as ultimately subjective and so without legitimate claim on other people. The belief in objectivity is a faith in "facts," a distrust of "values," and a commitment to their segregation. ↗

— Michael Schudson

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By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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Character depends on characters. Few people are character. Other's should try to opt one but they don't, they lose. ↗

— Vikram Roy

#philosophy-of-life #sociology #life

As with outlaw figures, in diverse musical and oral cultures throughout the world- Mexican corridos and Egyptian shaabi music, for example- Hip Hop's irreverence toward dominant values and noncompliance with the status quo creates alternative, counterhegemonic spaces. ↗

— H. Samy Alim

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

— Christopher Henry Dawson

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

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It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button. ↗

— John Brunner

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That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

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People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who imagine that everything culminates in transcendence, and that nothing exists which has not been conceptualized. Not only do they care little for such a view, but their perspective is the very opposite: it is not conceptualizing reality, but realizing concepts and materializing ideas, that interests them. The ideas of the religion and enlightened morality of the eighteenth century certainly, but also dreams, scientific values, and sexual perversions. Materializing freedom, but also the unconscious. Our phantasies around space and fiction, but also our phantasies of sincerity and virtue, or our mad dreams of technicity. Everything that has been dreamt on this side of the Atlantic has a chance of being realized on the other. They build the real out of ideas. We transform the real into ideas, or into ideology. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

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