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The detached observer's view is one window on the world.

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Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

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Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

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Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

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This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.

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Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

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If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

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Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

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That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: June 9th, 1912

Died: December 31st, 2000

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