Sociology · Skopia

Quotes

36

What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.

The Beauty Myth · 1990

★ 6.1

Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house?

The Souls of Black Folk · 1903

★ 5.5

God at bottom is nothing but an exalted father.

Totem and Taboo · 1913

★ 5.5

Sociology · Economic literature

In order to gain and to hold the esteem of men it is not sufficient merely to possess wealth or power. The wealth or power must be put in evidence, for esteem is awarded only on evidence.

Thorstein Veblen

The Theory of the Leisure Class · 1899

★ 5.3

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Books

32

Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville

1840★ 8.6

The Souls of Black Folk

1903★ 8.2

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

1905★ 7.1

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

1848★ 7.0

Civilization and Its Discontents

1929★ 6.9

Suicide

1897★ 6.8

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