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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

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Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.

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It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

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The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.

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A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: December 13th, 1902

Died: May 8th, 1979

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