I recognized that … there was a science of society as well as botany.
Studying doesn't have to happen in a silo. It can be a social experience. You can engage with your friends and family to find out the answer to a tough question or have someone explain it to you. You can also study anywhere you happen to be and on any device.
History is the shank of the social sciences.
I do disguises for different reasons. I like to study people - be like the fly on the wall. Even if it's two old ladies sitting on a bench or some kids on a swing. Because I don't know what it's like to fit in an everyday life situation.
Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists, namely eugenics.
I prefer to watch people.
I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.
There is only one social science and we are its practitioners
I'm definitely an observer of human behavior. I always have been.
I love to study people, and that's basically what sociology is.
I believe, the [Gunnar] Myrdal study had been made, and if we hadn't had anything else to raise questions, this in itself would have been something to provoke thought in the direction of the value of accommodating leadership.
The way forward does not lie in amateur and comically timeless linguistic sociology which takes 'forms of life ' for granted (and this is what philosophy has been recently), but in the systematic study of forms of life which does not take them for granted at all. It hardly matters whether such an inquiry is called philosophy or sociology.
What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.
Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.
It's not rocket science. It's social science.
'Unexpected Legacy' reports the findings of the California Children of Divorce Study, which began in 1971, a year after the nation's first no-fault divorce law was imposed in California. Wallerstein was the principal investigator on the study.
Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.
Economics is a social science, not a physical science.
History's a resource.
The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.
I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.
I understand demographics.
Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.
I love, I love human beings, studying them.
