"First, quite simply, the ultraspecialization that sociology, and indeed all the other social sciences, has been suffering has been both inevitable and self-destructive." Ibid., 243"Human arrogance has been humanity's greatest self-imposed limitation. This, it seems to me, is the message of the sto

"If it is true that human beings make their own identities, they nonetheless do not make them in circumstances of their own choosing." (206) Gould, Roger V. Insurgent Identities. Chicago: The University Chicago Press, 1995.

"Because a full consideration of all the meanings and technicalities of social environments that surround the self is difficult for an individual, a person is consequently not always able to choose the behavioral option that is best suited to his or her interests. It is only with regard to the impe

The pundits of knowledge establishment insist that this state of confusion is due to a shortage of studies. Soon there will be a seminar in the sky based on ten thousand new field trips. But we shall know less, not more, if these scholars have their way. Without a strategy aimed at bridging the g

The contempt for commerce and manual labour, the lure of easy money from investment in censos and juros, the universal hunger for titles of nobility and social prestige -- all these, when combined with innumerable practical obstacles in the way of profitable economic enterprise, hadpersuaded the bou

Everything which is a source of solidarity is moral, everything which forces man to take account of other men is moral, everything which forces him to regulate his conduct through something other than the striving of his ego is moral, and morality is as solid as these ties are numerous and strong...