History is strictly speaking the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
On the basis of biological sociological and historical knowledge we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay but the sum total of individual achievement for better or worse lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
Now I'm not saying I'm fashionable but there are sociological interests that matter to me things that are theoretical political intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.
Black literature is taught as sociology as tolerance not as a serious rigorous art form.
I feel however that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.