Albion Small
Albion Woodbury Small (1854-1926) is a sociologist states-unien known to have been as from 1892 like the director of the first department of sociology in the world, that of the Université of Chicago. Why Small had he become director of this department? Since Small studied the economy in Germany and that this discipline fell into the good graces from the managers from the university. Being given the experiment of Small in management in the educational system . Moreover, the university of Chicago is a denominational university and Small is Pasteur. Small is also the author in 1894 of the first work for submission to the students in sociology. It founds the review states-unienne of sociology ( American Journal off Sociology ).
For Small, sociological knowledge has a scientific claim. Small is a evolutionary positivist . But he seeks to be detached from Auguste Count of which he does not share the aspirations reformists. And although it is very familiar with work of Marx which it learned how to know at the time of its studies in Europe and which it practices a historical sociology, he is basically anti-Marxist.
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