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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…
• A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of…
• Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society…
• If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need…
• Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
• A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
• But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of…
• The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
• The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
• Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which…
• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have…
• But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to…

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