3+ Pierre L. van den Berghe Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Pierre L. van den Berghe quotes and sayings.

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century. — Pierre L. van den Berghe

A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible. — Pierre L. van den Berghe

I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments about the society in which I normally reside than I do abroad. It takes physical and cultural distance to gain moral detachment and political noncommitment. Relativism implies a solid measure of indifference. — Pierre L. van den Berghe