Albion Woodbury Small famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.
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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.
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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
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All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
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We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.
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The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
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Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.
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Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
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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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Modern cars I don't like so much.
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Or maybe I’d lost my soul already. I doubted God let someone like me keep any gift from him. It was highly likely I’d been born without one.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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