The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or political facts provide the real and sufficient explanation of sociological questions. On the other hand, the psychoanalyst must emphasize that the subject of sociology, society, in reality consists of individuals, and that it is these human beings, rather than abstract society as such, whose actions, thoughts, and feelings are the object of sociological research.
I think the idea of individualism has become more dominating in our society. You can even see it by our political system: how people vote, the job situation, the sociological evolution that's happening, what's happening in the Middle East and so forth.
Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.
A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological. Plus, it's really scary.
The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.
Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.
The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a dogma can only be explained on sociological grounds.
Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
I don't believe that clothes can start a revolution, but I do believe that fashion is often a manifestation of a sociological or political climate.
My photography is often a sociological look at American culture and it's been very well published in the UK.
Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.
I'm not a sports dude, but I'm interested in the sociological implications of it.
Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.
Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.
In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything. . . I'am an accident - a result - and therefore a victim. . . if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes. . . . or, if you look at it from the sociological perspective, I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.
I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.
Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.
New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.
The sociological evidence of the contagion of happiness and sadness suggests something quite remarkable: of all your relationships, of all the people capable of making you happiest or irritating you the most, those who have the greatest effect on your mood and even your state of health are those closest to hand.
