Excerpt from Sociology The prime conception of sociology is that the actions of men are determined or determinable by causes which can be ascertained. In other words, sociology begins with an explicit denial of the doctrine that the human will is free or uncaused. Were it so, human actions would be unaccountable, whether in the individual or in the mass, and there could be no science of society in the sense in which we have defined a science. Certainly the actions of no individual are perfectly calculable, but when we take ...
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Excerpt from Sociology The prime conception of sociology is that the actions of men are determined or determinable by causes which can be ascertained. In other words, sociology begins with an explicit denial of the doctrine that the human will is free or uncaused. Were it so, human actions would be unaccountable, whether in the individual or in the mass, and there could be no science of society in the sense in which we have defined a science. Certainly the actions of no individual are perfectly calculable, but when we take mankind in the gross we find that actions are calculable. This is the advantage of sociology over psychology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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