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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... method of constraint may be summed up in the one word discipline . In greater detail the methods are described in the following sentence : " By praise and blame , by avoidance and rebuke , by indulgence and license , by penance and fine ...
... method of constraint may be summed up in the one word discipline . In greater detail the methods are described in the following sentence : " By praise and blame , by avoidance and rebuke , by indulgence and license , by penance and fine ...
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... methods of government and procedure . The political ideas which come to guide this latter form of social development are transformed and converted into highly complex social values . Subjectively considered , these are judgments of the ...
... methods of government and procedure . The political ideas which come to guide this latter form of social development are transformed and converted into highly complex social values . Subjectively considered , these are judgments of the ...
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... method . For the phenomena of type can always be expressed in the statistical terms of " frequency " and " mode ... methods as frequencies of size . Rates of births and deaths , of marriage and 1 Ibid . , p . 523 . I 2 Principles of ...
... method . For the phenomena of type can always be expressed in the statistical terms of " frequency " and " mode ... methods as frequencies of size . Rates of births and deaths , of marriage and 1 Ibid . , p . 523 . I 2 Principles of ...
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... method of handling these frequencies and testing and establishing correlations therein Professor Giddings has not ... methods of the sociological statistician . The financial relations between towns and railroads in the days of the ...
... method of handling these frequencies and testing and establishing correlations therein Professor Giddings has not ... methods of the sociological statistician . The financial relations between towns and railroads in the days of the ...
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... methods of measuring fluctuations must , I think , be regarded as the chief object of sociological effort in the immediate future . That that effort will be successful is , I am convinced , a fairly safe prediction . " In these ...
... methods of measuring fluctuations must , I think , be regarded as the chief object of sociological effort in the immediate future . That that effort will be successful is , I am convinced , a fairly safe prediction . " In these ...
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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.
Page 303 - farm" for census purposes, is all the land which is directly farmed by one person, either by his own labor alone or with the assistance of members of his household or hired employees. The land operated by a partnership is likewise considered a farm. A "farm...
Page 503 - I praise the Frenchman*, his remark was shrewd—. How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet.
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.
Page 49 - For our present purpose the most important fact is that ethnocentrism leads a people to exaggerate and intensify everything in their own folkways which is peculiar and which differentiates them from others.
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.
Page 516 - Sticks and stones May break my bones But names can never hurt me.
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.