"The social stock of knowledge differentiates reality by degrees of familiarity... my knowledge of my own occupation a…"

"The social distribution of knowledge thus begins with the simple fact that I do not know everything known to my fello…"

"Social order is a human product, or more precisely, an ongoing human production."

"Habitualization carries with it the important psychological gain that choices are narrowed… the background of habitua…"

"Secularization theory is a term that was used in the fifties and sixties by a number of social scientists and histori…"

"I shall admit frankly that, among the academic diversions available today, I consider sociology as a sort of 'royal g…"

"There are very few jokes about sociologists."

"The same processes that generate consensus can be manipulated by a social group worker in a summer camp in the Adiron…"

"The sensible person reads the sociological journals mainly for the book reviews and the obituaries, and goes to socio…"

"The most important gain is that each [member of society] will be able to predict the other’s actions. Concomitantly, …"