The American Journal of Sociology, Volume 31Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess University of Chicago Press, 1926 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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... appear to be fixed and unchanging , absolute , because the con- ditions basic to many of them outlast the history of man ... appears to think otherwise , as do many other writers . " But the conflict of laws which produced Einstein's ...
... appear to be fixed and unchanging , absolute , because the con- ditions basic to many of them outlast the history of man ... appears to think otherwise , as do many other writers . " But the conflict of laws which produced Einstein's ...
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... appears here condi- tioned by a static universe of neighbors , where even the devil has a calling and knows his business under the static order of original sin . The minister may lay down the law , but he must do it without ...
... appears here condi- tioned by a static universe of neighbors , where even the devil has a calling and knows his business under the static order of original sin . The minister may lay down the law , but he must do it without ...
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... appears from the press a book that stands as a landmark in its special field . Without doubt Elements of Social Science , by Henry Pratt Fairchild , of New York University , occupies this coveted position . The book fills a well ...
... appears from the press a book that stands as a landmark in its special field . Without doubt Elements of Social Science , by Henry Pratt Fairchild , of New York University , occupies this coveted position . The book fills a well ...
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... appears to be growing , on the whole , not only in those disciplines which are most nearly related to sociology , such as economics , political science , and psychology , each of which has its history now embodied in a considerable and ...
... appears to be growing , on the whole , not only in those disciplines which are most nearly related to sociology , such as economics , political science , and psychology , each of which has its history now embodied in a considerable and ...
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... appear in the course of the present paper , not all the sociologists who have formulated social - forces doctrines would think of the social forces as primarily determinative of individual behavior . M.B tion , What is sociology ? drawn ...
... appear in the course of the present paper , not all the sociologists who have formulated social - forces doctrines would think of the social forces as primarily determinative of individual behavior . M.B tion , What is sociology ? drawn ...
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Page 720 - Patrons are requested to make all remittances payable to the University of Chicago Press in postal or express money orders or bank drafts. The following are authorized to quote the prices indicated : For the British Empire: The Cambridge University Press, Fetter Lane, London, EG 4, England.
Page 54 - But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner ; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 194 - First, it is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last ; not always by the chief offenders, but paid by some one.
Page 371 - Might is at once the supreme right, and the dispute as to what is right is decided by the arbitrament of war.
Page 561 - ... vivid creative life throughout a whole region — a region being any geographic area that possesses a certain unity of climate, soil vegetation, industry and culture. The regionalist attempts to plan such an area so that all its sites and resources, from forest to city, from highland to water level, may be soundly developed, and so that the population will be distributed so as to utilize, rather than to nullify or destroy its natural advantages. It sees people, industry, and the land as a single...
Page 218 - There are certain social principles in human nature, from which we may draw the most solid conclusions, with respect to the conduct of individuals and of communities. We love our families more than our neighbors : we love our neighbors more than our countrymen in general. The human affections, like the solar heat, lose their intensity, as they depart from the centre, and become languid...
Page 514 - By a social value we understand any datum having an empirical content accessible to the members of some social group and a meaning with regard to which it is or may be an object of activity.
Page 756 - What the sum or the nature of their knowledge ought to be at a given time or in a given case, is a totally different question: the main thing to be understood is, that a man is not educated, in any sense whatsoever, because he can read Latin, or write English, or can behave well in a drawingroom ; but that he is only educated if he is happy, busy, beneficent, and effective in the world ; that millions of peasants are therefore at this moment better educated than most of those who call themselves...
Page 511 - Human interests, then, are the ultimate terms of calculation in sociology. The whole life-process, so far as we know it, whether viewed in its individual or in its social phase, is at last the process of developing, adjusting, and satisfying interests.
Page 217 - The people of this Country are not only very different from the inhabitants of any State we are acquainted with in the modern world; but I assert that their situation is distinct from either the people of Greece or Rome, or of any State we are acquainted with among the antients.