Matilda White Riley

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“Interviewing individual group members separately affords privacy and encourages all members to answer. Respondents may be more frank if that others in the group will not hear what they say (thereby removing the possibility of group sanctions). This may be the best way of obtaining responses from individuals with lower positions (younger, lower {{w|socioeconomic status}}, e.g.) in the group, who might be intimidated by a group interview situation.”

“Remember that, as a sociologist, your focus is on social interaction—i.e., not on the biological or psychological processes of the actors, but on their {{w|social behavior}} and expression to each other of their underlying orientation, feelings, and attitudes.”

“... one seems forced to conclude that a disproportionally large number of the nation's "pockets of poverty" are found in rural-farm areas.”

“Parents who believed in the value of "getting ahead" started to apply pressure from the beginning of the school career.”

“Today's social structures and norms are the vestigial remains of the nineteenth-century, when most people died before their work was finished or their last child had left home. Age 65 was established as the criterion for {{w|Pensions in Germany|insurance eligibility in Germany back in the late 1870s}}—yet age 65 is still used in many countries under today's utterly changed conditions of longevity.”