Definition of Sociology

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Definition of Sociology
	Sociology That branch of philosophy which treats of the constitution, phenomena, and development of human society; social science. Related Definitions: And, Branch, Constitution, Development, Human, Of, Phenomena, Philosophy, Science, Social, Society, That, The, Which

Sociology Quotations

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
Thomas Sowell

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
W. H. Auden

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
Ralph Ellison

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

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
Robert Anton Wilson

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
Ulrich Beck

I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.
Paul Nurse

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.
Paul Nurse

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.
David Talbot

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.
Richard Russo

Sociology Translations

sociology in Dutch is sociologie, maatschappijleer
sociology in French is sociologie
sociology in German is Soziologie

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