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• Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements…
• Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society…
• Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
• The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part…
• In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible…
• A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of…
• If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need…
• A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

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