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 orderthereby to arrive at a causal explanation of its course and effects"

--Max Weber