Ibm Plus Reality Plus Humanism = Sociology.

For We Cannot Adequately Understand 'man' As An Isolated Biological Creature, As A Bundle Of Reflexes Or A Set Of Instincts, As An 'intelligible Field' Or A System In And Of Itself. Whatever Else He May Be, Man Is A Social And An Historical Actor Who Must Be Understood, If At All, In Close And Intricate Interplay With Social And Historical Structures

What We Experience In Various And Specific Milieux, I Have Noted, Is Often Caused By Structural Changes. Accordingly, To Understand The Changes Of Many Personal Milieux We Are Required To Look Beyond Them. And The Number And Variety Of Such Structural Changes Increase As The Institutions Within Which We Live Become More Embracing And More Intricately Connected With One Another. To Be Aware Of The Idea Of Social Structure And To Use It With Sensibility Is To Be Capable Of Tracing Such Linkages Among A Great Variety Of Milieux. To Be Able To Do That Is To Possess The Sociological Imagination

Here's To The Day When The Complete Works Of Leon Trotsky Are Published And Widely Distributed In The Soviet Union. On That Day The Ussr Will Have Achieved Democracy!

When White-collar People Get Jobs, They Sell Not Only Their Time And Energy, But Their Personalities As Well. They Sell By The Week, Or Month, Their Smiles And Their Kindly Gestures, And They Must Practice That Prompt Repression Of Resentment And Aggression.

The Very Shaping Of History Now Outpaces The Ability Of Men To Orient Themselves In Accordance With Cherished Values.