The American Journal of Sociology, Volume 24University of Chicago Press, 1919 Established in 1895 as the first U.S. scholarly journal in its field, AJS remains a leading voice for analysis and research in the social sciences, presenting work on the theory, methods, practice, and history of sociology. AJS also seeks the application of perspectives from other social sciences and publishes papers by psychologists, anthropologists, statisticians, economists, educators, historians, and political scientists. |
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... human society and all the events of history , including the migrations of men from place to place , the great enthusiasms , the intellectual awakenings , the wars and the revolu- tions , may be regarded as responses to varying stimuli ...
... human society and all the events of history , including the migrations of men from place to place , the great enthusiasms , the intellectual awakenings , the wars and the revolu- tions , may be regarded as responses to varying stimuli ...
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... human environment for no other purpose than to discover the principles which lie back of human association , to discern the forces by which the social organization is built up , developed , and held together , to deduce all possible ...
... human environment for no other purpose than to discover the principles which lie back of human association , to discern the forces by which the social organization is built up , developed , and held together , to deduce all possible ...
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... human ends . Applied sociology turns its face , not to the past , but to the present and future , and since the present is but a point of time , preponderantly to the future ; it is not so much concerned with finding out why society is ...
... human ends . Applied sociology turns its face , not to the past , but to the present and future , and since the present is but a point of time , preponderantly to the future ; it is not so much concerned with finding out why society is ...
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... human thought and reflections on human conduct , manners , and ways of thinking of human acts and relationships . Economics emerges with thought - processes and acts which center about the house hither and whither , converge the food ...
... human thought and reflections on human conduct , manners , and ways of thinking of human acts and relationships . Economics emerges with thought - processes and acts which center about the house hither and whither , converge the food ...
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... human being should talk in the way human beings were meant to talk , i.e. , as " we " do . Again , it is what the other people eat that arouses our contempt and even ire . Greek and American Indian alike despised the " Raweaters ...
... human being should talk in the way human beings were meant to talk , i.e. , as " we " do . Again , it is what the other people eat that arouses our contempt and even ire . Greek and American Indian alike despised the " Raweaters ...
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Page 706 - And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again,. that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel : there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
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Page 389 - What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely ; acted upon, it destroys our democracy.
Page 706 - What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David.
Page 150 - The greater part of universities have not even been very forward to adopt those improvements, after they were made ; and several of those learned societies have chosen to remain, for a long time, the sanctuaries in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices found shelter and protection, after they had been hunted out of every other corner of the world.
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Page 706 - Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel : and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.
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Page 705 - And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.