Albion W. Small Quotes

A collection of quotes by Albion W. Small.

Albion W. Small (1854-1926) was an influential American sociologist and educator. He was born in Buckfield, Maine, and graduated from Colby College in 1876. Small went on to earn his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1881, specializing in economics and sociology. He played a pivotal role in establishing sociology as an independent discipline within American academia. Small served as the first President of the American Sociological Association and was a founding member of the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago, where he also served as its first chair. His works focused on social organization, social theories, and the importance of empirical research in sociology.

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.

Albion W. Small

Truth Worth