Already I notice a feeling of 'If this be sociology, Good Lord deliver us.' However sociology has endured many things like it and my faith in its ult…

- Edward Alsworth Ross

In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spiri…

- Edward Alsworth Ross

During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating und…

- Edward Alsworth Ross

There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.

- Edward Alsworth Ross

Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but in their gat…

- Edward Alsworth Ross

A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.

- Edward Alsworth Ross

The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.

- Edward Alsworth Ross