Famous quotes by Sociologists

Sociologists have long examined the intricacies of human actions as well as the ways in which individuals interact with each other. From the cutting-edge job of Karl Marx to the modern-day theories of Pierre Bourdieu, sociologists have actually given us with a wealth of understanding into the social world. Here, we check out some of one of the most thought-provoking quotes from some of the most prominent sociologists of perpetuity, using us a look right into their unique perspectives on the human condition. From the relevance of recognizing power characteristics to the demand for social change, these quotes supply us with a powerful suggestion of the value of sociology in our lives.

"Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

C. Wright Mills

"Prestige is the shadow of money and power"

C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

"But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"The point of cities is multiplicity of choice"

Jane Jacobs, Sociologist

"On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections"

Thomas E. Mann, Sociologist

"Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"The medium is the message"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Publication is a self-invasion of privacy"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"I don't necessarily agree with everything I say"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

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