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A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
Talcott Parsons / Sociologist
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Language
Perception
Total
System
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Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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Evolution
Progress
Sometimes
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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Spencer
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The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
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Actors
Paper
Stage
Written
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Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
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Interest
Problem
Relevant
Empirical
Solution
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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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Facts
Importance
Inherent
Problem
Structure
Concerning
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If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.
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Bourgeoisie
Ends
Materialism
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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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Answers
Needed
Theory
Want
Also
Questions
Tells
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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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Importance
Theory
Consequences
Consists
Precisely
Scientific
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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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Accuracy
Alternatives
Facts
Needs
Reconstruction
Observed
Leaves
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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.
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Action
Elements
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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Instance
Logical
Structure
Theoretical
Direction
Empirical
Thus
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Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.
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Claim
Empirical
Matters
Reference
Scientific
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In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
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Circumstances
Theory
Correct
Empirical
Observe
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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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Doe
Facts
States
Theoretical
Observed
Logically
Merely
Relations
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The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.
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Analysis
Concern
Study
Theoretical
Main
Minor
Outline
Variations
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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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Family
Society
Behalf
Function
Personality
Differentiated
Directly
Functions
Highly
Interpreted
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Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.
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Reasons
Spencer
Stir
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Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
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Elements
Emphasis
Facts
Intimate
Logical
Special
Statements
Structure
Theoretical
Laid
Systems
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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Facts
Failing
Implicit
No Reason
Reason
Statements
Theory
Denies
Investigate
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If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.
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Equations
Manipulation
Missing
Three
Variables
Variable
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That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.
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Logical
Empirical
Interrelated
Involve
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Reference
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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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Desirable
Milieu
Among
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From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.
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Depends
Elements
Scientific Knowledge
Follows
Internal
Scientific
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The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.
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Implications
Logical
Closed
Derived
Finds
Proposition
Statement
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A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of theory with which scientists in that field are concerned.
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Science
Discovery
Interesting
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The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.
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Knowledge
Consideration
Everyday
Everyday Life
Implications
Justify
Systematic
Theory
Commonsense
Considerations
Empirically
Explicitly
Involves
Statement
Verifiable
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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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Body
Facts
Statements
Structure
Theoretical
Combined
Empirical
Hence
Increasing
Interpretations
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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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Conception
Contemporary
Contemporary Society
Prominent
Views
Turning
Comparatively
More And More
Near
Scientists
Turning Point
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It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.
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Development
Factual
Point Of View
Relativity
Safe
Structure
Theoretical
Theory
Views
Except
Led
Resulting
View
Trivial
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The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.
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Development
Factual
Hands
Hypothesis
Interaction
Investigation
May
Reciprocal
Tested
Theoretical
Forward
Insights
Large
Large Part
Subsequent
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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.
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Health
Science
Support
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