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Tag Archives: sociology quotes
The Insight of Karl Marx
“The insight of Karl Marx is as useful today as it was 100 years ago.” – Nouriel Roubini
Our Responsibility as Sociologists
“We need to reflect, respond and recognise our responsibility as sociologists.” – Prof Margaret Abraham, President of the International Sociological Association, has addressed the discriminatory Executive Order by USA President Donald Trump.
If Karl Marx Was Alive
“If Karl Marx was alive he would say, I told you so.”
Sociology More Nimble on its Feet
“When research is conducted in partnership with community, sociology becomes more ‘nimble on its feet.'” – Philip Nyden, Leslie Hossfeld and Gwendolyn Nyden
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)
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
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 at Work 