Albion Woodbury Small Quotes

• Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

  Albion Woodbury Small

  Sociology, Modern, Born

  1894 An Introduction to the Study of Society (with George E Vincent, 1894).

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• The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

  Albion Woodbury Small

  Civilized Nations, Aberration, Problem

  1914 'A Vision of Social Efficiency', in the American Journal of Sociology, Jan.

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• Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.

  Albion Woodbury Small

  Philosophy, Technique, Analysis

  Albion Woodbury Small (1907). “Adam Smith and Modern Sociology: A Study in the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, Chicago, U. P

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