“I shall admit frankly that, among the academic diversions available today, I consider sociology as a sort of 'royal game.”
Preface
Invitation to Sociology (1963)
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“The game of sociology goes on in a spacious playground.”
Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) Austrian-born American sociologist
Source: Invitation to Sociology (1963), p. 29
“The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 232.
Georg Simmel (1858–1918) German sociologist, philosopher, and critic
Source: Superiority and Subordination as Subject-matter of Sociology (1896), p. 167
“I once admitted—to my shame—
That football was a brutal game.
Because She hates it.”
Alfred Cochrane (1865–1948) English cricketer
To Anthea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Lewis Mumford book The Myth of the Machine
pg 176
The Myth of the Machine (1967-1970), Technics and Human Development (1967)
Thomas Luckmann (1927–2016) American-Austrian sociologist
Thomas Luckmann. The sociology of language, Bobbs-Merrill, 1975. p. 56
“A work of this sort admits no conclusion.”
David Harvey (1935) British anthropologist
Afterword, p.446
The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition)