"No man knows fully what has shaped his own thinking"

"The ethos of science involves the functionally necessary demand that theories or generalizations be evaluated in [ter…"

"The role of outstanding scientists in influencing younger associates is repeatedly emphasized in the interviews with …"

"The last two decades have witnessed, especially in Germany and France, the rise of a new discipline, the sociology of…"

"It is likely that the emphasis upon the metaphysical and epistemological implications of the sociology of knowledge c…"

"The extreme emphasis upon the accumulation of wealth as a symbol of success in our society militates against the comp…"

"By social structure is meant that organized set of social relationships in which members of the society or group are …"

"[Merton states that anomie represents] An acute disjunction between the cultural norms and goals and the socially str…"

"The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour which …"

"So much of what he says is so absolutely obvious, so transparently true, that one can't imagine why no one else has b…"