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Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.

Albion Woodbury Small

Albion Woodbury Small

Albion Woodbury Small

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Born: May 11, 1854

Died: February 12, 1926 (aged 71)

Bio: Albion Woodbury Small founded the first Department of Sociology in the United States at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois in 1892. He was influential in the establishment of sociology as a valid field of academic study.

Known for:

An introduction to the study of society (1894)
The meaning of social science (1910)

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