"Within the broad limits of
the physiology of the sense organs, our very perception of the physical
world, the colors we discriminate, the smells we become aware of, the noises
we hear, are socially patterned and socially circumscribed. The motivations
of men, and even the varying extents to which various types of men are
typically aware of them, are to be understood in terms of the vocabularies
of motive that prevail in a society and of social changes and confusions
among such vocabularies" (The Sociological
Imagination, 1959, p. 162).