A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
社会学
Sociology
Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.
即使在最具洞察力的时候，社会学也处理抽象问题。
I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened.
我不是一个好学生;我很懒。但是当我在上社会学课时，我听。
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
黑人文学被当作社会学、宽容来教授，而不是一种严肃、严谨的艺术形式。
Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.
在过去的半个世纪里，社会学似乎错过了每一条在学术上有前途的船。
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
严格地说，历史是对问题的研究;答案研究属于人类学和社会学。
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.
无神论不是一种哲学;它甚至不是一种世界观;这只是拒绝否认显而易见的事实。不幸的是，我们生活在一个把显而易见的东西作为原则而被忽视的世界里。
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
一定存在这样一种可能:把社会学和案例史留给科学家们，让他们用童话中所有的光明魔力，在此时此地，了解人类状况的真相。
That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.
随着我们的科学变得越来越抽象，这门学科对经济学家失去了一度的吸引力，但随着科学社会学提出的问题变得更加突出，我的兴趣甚至变得更加浓厚。