10 INTRODUCTION
FOUNDATIONS OF
SOCIOLOGY
20 A physical defeat has
never marked the end
of a nation Ibn Khaldun
21 Mankind have always
wandered or settled,
agreed or quarreled,
in troops and companies
Adam Ferguson
22 Science can be used to
build a better world
Auguste Comte
26 The Declaration of
Independence bears
no relation to half the
human race
Harriet Martineau
28 The fall of the bourgeoisie
and the victory of the
proletariat are equally
inevitable Karl Marx
SOCIAL
INEQUALITIES
66 I broadly accuse the
bourgeoisie of social
murder Friedrich Engels68 The problem of the 20th
century is the problem
of the color line
W.E.B. DuBois74 The poor are excluded
from the ordinary living
patterns, customs, and
activities of life
Peter Townsend75 There ain’t no black
in the Union Jack
Paul Gilroy76 A sense of one’s place
Pierre Bourdieu80 The Orient is the stage
on which the whole East
is confined Edward Said82 The ghetto is where the
black people live
Elijah Anderson84 The tools of freedom
become the sources
of indignity
Richard Sennett88 Men’s interest in
patriarchy is condensed
in hegemonic masculinity
R.W. Connell32 Gemeinschaft and
Gesellschaft
Ferdinand Tönnies34 Society, like the human
body, has interrelated
parts, needs, and
functions Émile Durkheim38 The iron cage of
rationality Max Weber46 Many personal troubles
must be understood in
terms of public issues
Charles Wright Mills50 Pay to the most
commonplace activities
the attention accorded
extraordinary events
Harold Garfinkel52 Where there is power
there is resistance
Michel Foucault56 Gender is a kind of
imitation for which
there is no original
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