Occupation: Sociologist Birth: March 27, 1893 Death: January 9, 1947
As long as one does not call his own position into question but regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas as a mere function of….
For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past..
The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the im….
All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it is pre-occupied. But the mod….
A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must st….
At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in a new ligh….
Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is t….
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be th….