Theodor Adorno Quotes on Sociology
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'Metaphysical categories are not merely an ideology concealing the social system; at the same time they express its nature, the truth about, and in their changes are precipitated those in its most central experiences.'
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'Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.'
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'That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough has yet been done; that something has still been left outside its machinery, not quite determined by its totality.'
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'The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.'
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'Up to our days a man's membership of the upper or lower classes has been crudely determined by whether or not he accepted money. At times false pride became conscious criticism.'