Albion Woodbury Small quotes
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“Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.”
-- Albion Woodbury SmallSource : 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 SmallSource : 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 SmallSource : 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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“The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.”
Source : Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1999). “On Television”, p.17, The New Press
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“Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.”
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“You cannot make a modern apartment out of a traditional space.”
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“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”
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“Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.”
Source : "An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay". techland.time.com. April 02, 2013.
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