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Sociological critics are waste makers.
Andy Warhol / Artist
Critics
Makers
Sociological
Waste
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Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.
Richard Russo / Novelist
Abstraction
Deals
Sociological
Sociology
Perceptive
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Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
Robert Bly / Poet
Grief
Prose
Sociological
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I'm not a sports dude, but I'm interested in the sociological implications of it.
Ian Mackaye / Singer
Sports
Implications
Sociological
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The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
Pierre Bourdieu / Sociologist
Science
Function
Sociological
Sociology
Every
Hidden
Reveal
Which
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Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.
David Crystal / Author
Issues
Language
Sociological
Writing
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Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.
Francis Schaeffer / Theologian
Cry
Healing
Sociological
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Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.
Robert Bly / Poet
Academic
Form
Sociological
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My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.
Lauren Greenfield / Artist
American Culture
Sociological
Published
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Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.
Annette Bening / Actress
Critics
Sociological
Context
Cultural
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Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.
Kerry James Marshall / Artist
Abstraction
Aesthetic
Different
Path
Representation
Sociological
Two
Paths
Supposed
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All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen.
Zygmunt Bauman / Sociologist
Happens
Skills
Sociological
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Growing up in a specific area has a certain sociological and economic reason, so I'm interested in using myself as a case study to look as those things.
Martine Syms /
Sociological
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History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.
Paul Auster / Author
Character
Environment
Sociological
Talking
Directly
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When I was a kid, and Elvis Presley broke through to a middle class, white audience, it was a sociological phenomenon that lasted through the Beatles and even a bit through Fleetwood Mac.
Lindsey Buckingham / Musician
Audience
Broke
Class
Fleetwood Mac
Middle
Middle Class
Phenomenon
Sociological
White
Bit
Elvis
Mac
Fleetwood
Lasted
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According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan / Prime Minister Of Turkey
Democracy
Different
East
Historical
Middle
Middle East
Religious
Sociological
Views
Western
Western Culture
According
Applied
Background
Cannot
Cultural
Product
View
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities - political, commercial, sociological, scientific - of the times in which I have lived.
John Burroughs / Essayist
Sociological
Activities
Commercial
Scientific
Spectator
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
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Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.
Bokeem Woodbine /
Humanity
Sociological
Examine
Explore
Expose
Intrinsic
Thereby
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If you asked a team of expert psychologists and sociological researchers to come up with a design that was sure to infuriate and offend liberals in America, they'd probably come up with what we call the Great Seal.
Mike Gallagher / Radio Host
Researchers
Sociological
Offend
Liberals
Psychologists
Seal
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I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.
Julie Delpy / Actress
Humility
Littles
People
Sociological
Anyway
Funny People Serious
False
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I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.
James Daly / Film Actor
Technology
Aspect
Bits
Coverage
Focus
Sociological
Thinking
Transforming
High-Tech
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I have known Evo Morales for many years, since the days of the union movement. From a historical and sociological standpoint, the election of Evo Morales is extraordinary, with great prospects and potential for the Bolivian people.
Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva / Former President Of Brazil
Election
Extraordinary
Prospects
Sociological
Standpoint
Union
Union Movement
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I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.
David Maraniss / Journalist
Book
Capture
Focus
Geography
Sociological
Want
Books
Time Focus Will
Cultural
Explain
Time Way Will
Forces
Last
Shape
Subject
Test
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The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.
Gus Van Sant / Film Director
War
Climbing
Controlled
Shopping
Sociological
Unseen
Aspects
Student
Inform
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The Malthusian Theory - that mankind, for biological and sociological reasons, is so fertile, so fecund, that if you started out with the new continent and plenty of land for everybody, in several generations we would multiply our numbers.
Paul Samuelson / Economist
Fertile
Generations
Mankind
Numbers
Plenty
Sociological
Theory
Biological
Continent
Multiply
Reasons
Several
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Technology is just one of the factors affecting the world of work. Economics, demographics, sociological trends, and government policies are four other core influences reshaping labour markets and determining how we will work for years ahead.
Alain Dehaze /
Core
Demographics
Factors
Just One
Sociological
Affecting
Ahead
Determining
Government Policies
Influences
Policies
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While I was thinking about the next film to do, I was also reading this book by Diane Ackerman called 'The Natural History of the Senses' - an anthropological and sociological look at the senses. But it also has this great sense of enthusiasm.
Jeremy Podeswa /
Enthusiasm
Natural History
Senses
Sociological
Diane
Great Sense
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The gulf between Virginia and Maryland isn't only a function of geography. It's also sociological. Indeed, it's probably not much of an exaggeration to say that Maryland suburbanites and Virginia suburbanites constitute two mutually hostile tribes.
Timothy Noah / Journalist
Exaggeration
Function
Geography
Hostile
Maryland
Sociological
Tribes
Virginia
Constitute
Gulf
Indeed
Mutually
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On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
Hu Shih / Philosopher
Death
Knowledge
Achievement
Decay
Historical
Historical Knowledge
Immortality
Individual
Self
Sociological
Basis
Biological
Total
Larger
Recognize
Subject
Sum
Sum Total
Worse
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Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.
Miuccia Prada / Fashion Designer
Concerned
Fashion
Fashionable
Sociological
Theoretical
Thinking
Translate
Vanity
Interests
Mix
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Whatever role the structure of the Internet plays in radicalization, the root causes are still primarily sociological and political, and they will perdure and manifest themselves somewhere, somehow, no matter what YouTube suggests for your next video when you watch a Milton Friedman lecture.
Ross Douthat / Author
Causes
Manifest
Milton
Sociological
Youtube
Lecture
Primarily
Root
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
Adam Hamilton / Pastor
Ancient
Bible
Critical
East
Historical
Setting
Sociological
Cultural
Forced
Leaves
Near
Norms
Scientific
Text
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I used to always say - and I think a lot of artists think of it this way - that when you see a black figure, the way the critical establishment operated, you can only imagine that figure having a sociological value. They never say the ways in which their aesthetics were equally worthy of consideration.
Kerry James Marshall / Artist
Aesthetic
Consideration
Critical
Establishment
Imagine
Sociological
Worthy
Artists
Equally
Figure
Operated
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I don't accept 'political rapper' because I don't give a damn about either political party. I give a damn about the people. My rap comes from a sociological standpoint rather than picking a particular side or dogma or ideology. I just want people to be free to do what they want, as long as they don't harm others.
Killer Mike / Hip-Hop Artist
Damn
Dogma
Harm
Ideology
Particular
Rap
Rapper
Sociological
Standpoint
Accept
Picking
Political Party
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I was frustrated with how academia tended to present feminist theory in disconnected or inaccessible ways. I wanted to try and bring a sociological feminist lens to the limited and limiting representations of women in the media and then share that with other young women of my generation. YouTube was the perfect medium.
Anita Sarkeesian / Critic
Academia
Disconnected
Frustrated
Inaccessible
My Generation
Sociological
Theory
Youtube
Lens
Limiting
Medium
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