Albion W. Small Quotes

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 W. Small

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
Albion W. Small

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Albion W. Small Quotes

Type: Sociologist Quotes Category: American Sociologist Quotes Date of Birth: May 11, 1854 Date of Death: March 24, 1926 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Albion W. Small Related Authors: Charles Horton Cooley Lewis Mumford Jane Jacobs Deborah Tannen C. Wright Mills Ivan Illich Talcott Parsons Daniel Bell Todd Gitlin	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 W. Small The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding. Albion W. Small