Sociology should... be ...

Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.
Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.
 Talcott Parsons

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.
 Talcott Parsons
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
 Talcott Parsons