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Sociology Department
“The fascination of sociology lies in the fact that its perspective makes us see in a
new light the very world in which we have lived all our lives”
--Peter Berger
"The sociological imagination is a quality of mind that seems most dramatically to promise an understanding of the
intimate realities of ourselves in connection with larger social realities"
--C. Wright Mills
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it"
--Karl Marx
“Sociology is a science which attempts the interpretive understanding of social action in order
thereby to arrive at a causal explanation of its course and effects"
--Max Weber
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