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Edward Alsworth Ross

(1866–1951) Sociologist

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Edward Alsworth Ross was a sociologist.

Quick Facts About Edward Alsworth Ross

Born: December 12, 1866
Died: July 22, 1951
Profession: Sociologist

About Edward Alsworth Ross

[Wikidata] American sociologist (1866–1951)... | [Wikipedia] Edward Alsworth Ross was an American sociologist and university professor, journalist, and publicist. A leading figure in the American Sociological Association, he helped found its journal American Journal of Sociology.

Quotes by Edward Alsworth Ross

There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.

Edward Alsworth Ross

Careers

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During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the…

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Advantage

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The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the…

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Boards

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Already I notice a feeling of 'If this be sociology, Good Lord deliver us.' However sociology has endured many things like it…

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Feelings

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A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.

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Conscious

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In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public…

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Citizens

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Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but…

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Age

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