16 October 2021

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real (Herbert Marcuse).

Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell (Erving Goffman).

Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed (Talcott Parsons).

Without data, youʼre just another person with an opinion (William Edwards Deming).

Comparative sociology is not a particular branch of sociology; it is sociology itself, in so far as it ceases to be purely descriptive and aspires to account for facts (Emile Durkheim).