#sociology

False fears are a plague, a modern plague! ↗

— Michael Crichton

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Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. ↗

— Karl Popper

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And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside. ↗

— Stephen King

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Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man. ↗

— Richard Matheson

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They were sorting, or classifying. It's easy-anyone dressed funny is the enemy, especially if they reject your supremacy or do not acknowledge school as entertainment. If the enemy tries to look like you and act like you, only in more affordable clothes, that person is still the enemy, only of a more contemptible, less terrifying variety- ↗

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

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Phule had propounded the theory of the Aryan invasion as the source of oppression; dalit radicals of the 1920s took it to its extreme; Amedkar denied it. ↗

— Gail Omvedt

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...give a great deal of attention to keeping his managers and his technical people as interchangeable as their talents allow. The barriers are sociological... To overcome this problem some laboratories, such as Bell Labs, abolish all job titles. Each professional employee is a "member of technical staff. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

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Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right. ↗

— Sherry Turkle

#relationships #sociology #technology #age