The American Journal of Sociology, Volume 30

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Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess
University of Chicago Press, 1925

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Page 746 - Any general character, from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to the most enlightened, may be given to any community, even to the world at large, by the application of proper means; which means are to a great extent at the command and under the control of those who have influence in the affairs of men.
Page 141 - It is not to die, or even to die of hunger that makes a man wretched; many men have died; all men must die But it is to live miserable we know not why; to work more and yet gain nothing; to be heartworn, weary, yet isolated and unrelated.
Page 705 - If our citizens are well educated, and grow into sensible men, they will easily see their way through all these, as well as other matters which I omit, such, for example, as marriage, the possession of women, and the procreation of children, which will all follow the general principle that friends have all things in common
Page 300 - relations of human beings as affected by the selective, distributive, and accommodative forces of the environment. Human ecology is fundamentally interested in the effect of position, 1 in both time and space, upon human institutions and human behavior. "Society is made up of individuals spatially separated, territorially distributed, and capable of independent locomotion.
Page 530 - And the result of the whole discussion has been that I know nothing at all. For I know not what justice is, and therefore I am not likely to know whether it is or is not a virtue, nor can I say whether the just man is happy or unhappy.
Page 712 - dialectic: When a person starts on the discovery of the absolute by the light of reason only, and without any assistance of sense, and perseveres until by pure intelligence he arrives at the perception of the absolute good, he at last finds himself at the end of the intellectual world, as in the case of sight at the end of the visible.
Page 64 - groups by stronger, enslavement of the conquered, and the founding of permanent social stratification upon this arrangement, was merely the inevitable working out of the law of the survival of the fittest in the struggle for existence. It is accusing the order of nature to apply the epithets "wrong" and "guilt" to these stages in the evolution of society.
Page 702 - each individual should be put to the use for which nature intended him, one to one work, and then every man would do his own business, and be one and not many; and so the whole city would be one and not many
Page 715 - But whether such a one exists, or ever will exist in fact, is no matter; for he will live after the manner of that city, having nothing to do with any other.
Page 711 - remain in the upper world; but this must not be allowed; they must be made to descend again among the prisoners in the den, and partake of their labors and honors, whether they are worth having or not.

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