Social Science Quotations: Who Said What, When, and WhereRobert Merton Social Science Quotations has been prepared to meet an evident, unmet need in the literature of the social sciences. Writings on the lives and theories of individual social scientists abound, but there has been no fully documented collection of memorable quotations from the social sciences as a whole. The frequent use of quotations in scientific as well as literary writings that are mere summaries or paraphrases typically fail to capture the full force of formulations that have made quotations memorable. This book of quotations invites the further reading or rereading of the original texts, beyond the quotations themselves. Sills and Merton draw extensively upon the writings that constitute the historical core of the social sciences and social thought; those works with staying power often described as the "classical texts." Many quotations have been drawn from these classical texts because the quotations contain memorable ideas memorably expressed. Both consequential and memorable, these words have been quoted over the generations, entering into the collective memory of social scientists everywhere and at times diffusing into popular thought and into the vernacular as well. This book is useful to social scientists, anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists and statisticians, and for all who want to learn or verify memorable formulations and phrases concerning social thought and social theories. It is particularly useful for graduate students taking courses that examine the history of their discipline. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 75
... kind; much more than the other quotations in the volume, their selection reflects the tastes and preferences of the editors. Some of the quotations have had such an extensive influence for so long that they have become part of the ...
... that the volume will be found useful and that readers who detect errors of any kind will call them to our attention. June 1992 DAVID L. SILLS ROBERT K. MERTON Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis Group http://taylorandfrancis.com.
... , Philip Friedman, and his associate, Elly Dickason, have provided exactly the kind of institutional aid and comfort a volume such as this requires. A Technical Note T-Lhe quotations are presented alphabetically by author,
... kind of history, whether written in metre or not. The real difference is this, that one tells what happened and the other what might happen. For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry ...
... kind from the individual values of the members of the society. But this abstraction can only be based on interpersonally observed behavior, as in market purchases or voting, not on the full range of an individual's feelings. As is by ...
Other editions - View all
Social Science Quotations: Who Said What, When, and Where David L. Sills,Robert King Merton Limited preview - 2000 |