Social Trends Quotes

I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that's all.

When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said.

Music and fashion are a sign of the times and a reflection of what people want and need at this very day and age.

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.

Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.

First of all, break-dancing has been done for years, though not all of it put together the way it is now. But, actually, the distinctions have been blurring since the 1950s.

There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it's no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles.

The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.

Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this year? Yet social scientists are asked to answer analogous questions. We economists and perhaps psychologists shouldn't overreact to the derision. That is, we shouldn't try to overlay a false sense of precision on our admittedly squooshy work.

Contrary to what most people believe, fads are made, not born.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

I think professional wrestling will always be a reflection of how society is.

More than most, I believe I'm highly attuned to how heresies eventually become mainstream belief systems and how the vast majority of people who consider themselves 'edgy' are those who only embraced radical ideas LONG after it became safe for them to do so.

Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

We must consider the ruling propensities of every age of the world.… superstition and fanaticism rule with unlimited domination, and the understanding of man really seems to be going backwards.

On reflection, some things do super well because they hit with the time. Some things do super well because they are able to activate a kind of echo chamber or bandwagon or cascade - they didn't particularly hit with the time. Some things are just too astonishingly good to not hit the top. Those three explanations, with respect to the Star Wars phenomenon, seem to me all to pass the plausibility test, and to explore them, with respect to Star Wars, I think casts light not just on the saga of our time, but also on everything about our culture.

I always say 'The Bachelor' doesn't create and drive social issues. We're a microcosm of what's happening in the world.

In L.A. there's diet trends, there's the new nip and tuck people are doing, the new person who is in town you never saw before.