Top 3 Quotes by Albion Woodbury Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Sociology, Modern, Born

1894 An Introduction to the Study of Society (with George E Vincent, 1894).

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

Albion Woodbury Small

Civilized Nations, Aberration, Problem

1914 'A Vision of Social Efficiency', in the American Journal of Sociology, Jan.

Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.

Albion Woodbury Small

Philosophy, Technique, Analysis

Albion Woodbury Small (1907). “Adam Smith and Modern Sociology: A Study in the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, Chicago, U. P