What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes of ma….

The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner... dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana ….

If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And ….

For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible fiel….

Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way o….

The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We ….

As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols..

The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center... in the political sphere... the equilib….

My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies.

The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker..

History is the shank of the social sciences..

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose..

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic mach….

What one side considers a defense the other considers a threat. In the vortex of the struggle, each is trapped by his own fearful outlook and by his ….

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive..

The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon ….

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth..

In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man. History is not yet done with its….

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached..

If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acce….

No one can be truly powerful unless he has access to the command of major institutions, for it is over these institutional means of power that the tr….