Publication of the American Sociological Society, Volumes 4-6American Sociological Society., 1910 - Sociology List of members in v. 1, 5-25, 28 (supplemental list in v. 26-27) |
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... better to drop miracles with witches , hell , personal devil , flood , tower of Babel , creation in six days , etc. , in silence . The various attempts of the eigh- teenth century ( Butler , Paley ) to sustain religion or theology by ...
... better to drop miracles with witches , hell , personal devil , flood , tower of Babel , creation in six days , etc. , in silence . The various attempts of the eigh- teenth century ( Butler , Paley ) to sustain religion or theology by ...
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... better theme for our annual reunion . But why American statistics ? Because statistics , like history and unlike economics or sociology , invites or demands a national rather than an international or universal treatment . Statistics is ...
... better theme for our annual reunion . But why American statistics ? Because statistics , like history and unlike economics or sociology , invites or demands a national rather than an international or universal treatment . Statistics is ...
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... better sta- tistics is now imperative . To develop that argument this after- noon would require too much time . Allow me , then , if you please , to assume that such a growth has occurred , is likely to continue , and deserves ...
... better sta- tistics is now imperative . To develop that argument this after- noon would require too much time . Allow me , then , if you please , to assume that such a growth has occurred , is likely to continue , and deserves ...
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American Sociological Association. sity far better than in an office . Such are its history and theory , the presentation of its main results as a coherent system of facts and principles , the comparison and criticism of methods and ...
American Sociological Association. sity far better than in an office . Such are its history and theory , the presentation of its main results as a coherent system of facts and principles , the comparison and criticism of methods and ...
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... better expression would probably be social habits , since these regular modes of social activity are not , by any means , confined to the large group which we term a folk or a people , but are found in the smallest groups of society as ...
... better expression would probably be social habits , since these regular modes of social activity are not , by any means , confined to the large group which we term a folk or a people , but are found in the smallest groups of society as ...
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Page 117 - ... all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced" and swept away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality — its universality ; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension — its enlargement. All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right ; all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which...
Page 65 - Where the sentiment of nationality exists in any force, there is a prima facie case for uniting all the members of the nationality under the same government, and a government to themselves apart.
Page 117 - Holding, as they do, that slavery is morally right, and socially elevating, they cannot cease to demand a full national recognition of it, as a legal right, and a social blessing.
Page 147 - ... two : first, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause ; and, second, that things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. The former principle may be called the Law of Similarity, the latter the Law of Contact or Contagion. From the first of these principles, namely the Law of Similarity, the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it...
Page 88 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Page 147 - Law of Contact or Contagion. From the first of these principles, namely the Law of Similarity, the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it: from the second he infers that whatever he does to a material object will affect equally the person with whom the object was once in contact, whether it formed part of his body or not.
Page 62 - But the strongest of all is identity of political antecedents: the possession of a national history, and consequent community of recollections; collective pride and humiliation, pleasure and regret, connected with the same incidents in the past.
Page 58 - It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant. Savages, even within the limits of the same tribe, are not nearly so uniform in character, as has been often asserted.
Page 117 - I suppose the institution of slavery really looks small to him. He is so put up by nature that a lash upon his back would hurt him, but a lash upon anybody else's back does not hurt him.
Page 143 - But carry your eye farther along the fabric and you will remark that, while the black and white chequer still runs through it, there rests on the middle portion of the web, where religion has entered most deeply into its texture, a dark crimson stain, which shades off insensibly into a lighter tint as the white thread of science is woven more and more into the tissue.