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But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral…

— Paul Ormerod

Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.

— Talcott Parsons

Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities…

— Emile Durkheim

Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.

— Henri Poincare

“We have had no polemic interest in writing this book. It would be foolish to deny, however, that our enthusiasm for the present state…

— Peter L. Berger

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

— Albion Woodbury Small

Never was it [Capitalism] imposed on life as a system, or at all. It grew out of life, not all at once but gradually,…

— Garet Garrett

“...for recent sociologists the dark secret at the heart of modern individualism is its failure as a mode of life...”

— Lee Patterson

I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject.…

— Tom Wolfe

One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more…

— Os Guinness

“In this setting modern modern science tends increasingly to become one of two things: either a high form of technology, often with a goal…

— Francis A. Schaeffer

Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable effects on…

— Allen W. Wood