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By the fact of his living he contributes, however minutely, to the shaping of this society and to the course of its history, even as he is made by society and by its historical push and shove.
C. Wright Mills, Todd Gitlin (Afterword) • The Sociological Imagination
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Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
Never before in history have so many people been under the gaze of so many strangers. Humans evolved in small groups, defined by kinship: those we knew, knew us. And our imaginative capabilities allowed us to know strangers—kings and queens, heroes of legend, gods above—all manner of at least partly mythic personalities to whom we may have felt as ... See more
Chris Hayes • On the Internet, We’re Always Famous
By 1956, the sociologist William H. Whyte saw a “decline of the Protestant ethic” and the rise of “the organization man,” for whom conformity was prized over initiative.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
Assuming Weber’s central insight to have been correct, then in the face of the dramatic transformation in the forms of contemporary capitalism, some new ethos ought to be unfolding right before our eyes.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
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Enrico Ferri • Criminal Sociology
if this is true of people and the situations in which they find themselves, it seems to me, it’s also true of objects.