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Category Archives: Sociology Quotes
Social Survey Invented by Sociology
“Indeed a case might well be made for the statement that the social survey was an invention of the sociologist.” – E. W. Burgess (1916)
Applied Sociology Goals for 2017
“Applied sociology goals: exercise the sociological imagination.” New Year’s resolutions for enhancing our collective sociological practice
Happy New Year!
Applied sociologists, keep working for sociological change!
Applied Sociology: Understanding, Intervention, and Enhancement of Human Social Life
“Applied sociology is ‘any use (often client-centred) of the sociological perspective and / or its tools in the understanding of, intervention in, and/ or enhancement of human social life.” – Stephen Steele and Jamie Price
Honouring Ulrich Beck: Re-vitalising The Sociological Imagination
“A re-vitalised sociological imagination can and does have all kinds of impacts.” – Professor Ulrich Beck
Classic Quote of the Week: Zygmunt Bauman on The Task for Sociology
“The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.” – Zygmunt Bauman
Classic Quote of the Week: Pierre Bourdieu on The Function of Sociology
“The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.” – Pierre Bourdieu
Sociology: ‘A Dazzling and Compelling Enterprise’
“Sociology is the study of human social life, groups and societies. It is a dazzling and compelling enterprise, having as its subject matter our own behaviour as social beings.” – Anthony Giddens
Once You Are Liberated
“It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.” – Jean Baudrillard
Sociology at Work 