Sociological Imagination

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

— Thomas Sowell


Sociology asks what happens to men and by what rules they behave, not in so far as they unfold their understandable individual existences in their totalities, but in so far as they form groups and are determined by their group existence because of interaction.

— Georg Simmel (1858-1918), The Sociology of Georg Simmel