Sociologist Quotes

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.
The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.
The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.
There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.
Design is people.
Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.
The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.
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