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Weber (Max)
Max Weber (1864 - 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist. He was one of the founding fathers of sociology. In his most famous book, The Protestant Ethic and th...
Comte (Auguste)
Auguste Comte (1798 – 1857) was a French philosopher and the founder of positivism, a social doctrine based on science. His ideas were fundamental to the development of sociology.
Javakhishvili (Irakli)
Irakli Javakhishvili is currently an associate professor at Webster University in Georgia, and adjunct professor at Webster University in Tashkent.
Russo (Megan Marie)
Megan M. Russo is a contributor to the Reading Room.
Rojas (Fabio)
Fabio Rojas is professor of sociology at Indiana University. He studies organizational behavior in political, economic, and educational settings.
Brown (Susan Love)
Susan Love Brown is a recently retired Professor of Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.
William Graham Sumner on the political corruption which is “jobbery” (1884)
Jobbery is any scheme which aims to gain, not by the legitimate fruits of industry and enterprise, but by extorting from somebody a part of his product under guise of some pretended industrial un...
William Graham Sumner on the racism which lies behind Imperialism (1898)
The Americans have been committed from the outset to the doctrine that all men are equal. We have elevated it into an absolute doctrine as a part of the theory of our social and political fabric....
William Graham Sumner on how “society” helps the drunkard in the gutter (1883)
When you see a drunkard in the gutter, you are disgusted, but you pity him. When a policeman comes and picks him up you are satisfied. You say that “society” has interfered to save the drunka...
Tocqueville on the absence of government in America (1835)
What most strikes the European who travels across the United States is the absence of what among us we call government or administration. In America, you see written laws; you see their daily exe...
https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/tocqueville-on-the-absence-of-government-in-america-1835
Leroux (Robert)
Robert Leroux is a professor of sociology at the University of Ottawa. He is interested by epistemology, the history of social science, and liberal thought.
Spencer (Herbert)
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was one of the leading 19th century English radical individualists. He began working as a journalist for the laissez-faire magazine The Economist in the 1850s. Much of...
Nisbet (Robert A.)
Robert Nisbet (1913-1996), former professor of sociology at Columbia University.
Sumner (William Graham)
William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) was one of the founding father’s of American sociology. Although he trained as an Episcopalian clergyman, Sumner went on to teach at Yale University where he w...
Tocqueville (Alexis De)
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) was an enormously influential French political philosopher, politician, and historian. After a trip to the U.S. in 1831 to observe the penal system he wrote Demo...
Tocqueville on the spirit of association (1835)
When citizens can associate only in certain cases, they regard association as a rare and singular process, and they hardly think of it. When you allow them to associate freely in everything, they...
https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/tocqueville-on-the-spirit-of-association-1835
Tocqueville on the form of despotism the government would assume in democratic America (1840)
After having thus taken each individual one by one into its powerful hands, and having molded him as it pleases, the sovereign power extends its arms over the entire society; it covers the surfac...
William Graham Sumner reminds us never to forget the “For... pays the taxes and suffers under government regulation (1883)
In the definition the word “people” was used for a class or section of the population. It is now asserted that if that section rules, there can be no paternal, that is, undue, government. Tha...
Sumner: A Sketch
Related Links: William Graham Sumner Source: Editors' Introduction to Sumner's The Challenge of Facts and other Essays, ed. Albert Galloway Keller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1914). SKETCH...
William Graham Sumner denounced America’s war against Spa...itures, political jobbery” would result in imperialsm (1898)
Now what will hasten the day when our present advantages will wear out and when we shall come down to the conditions of the older and densely populated nations? The answer is: war, debt, taxation...