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An Introduction to the Study of Society
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  • Albion W. Small

    
the world’s first sociology textbook, An Introduction to the Study of Society (1894). He called the attention of U.S. scholars to contemporary German-language social theories, particularly those of the Austrian soldier and philosopher Gustav Ratzenhofer, whose ideas strongly influenced Small’s General Sociology (1905).

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the world’s first sociology textbook, An Introduction to the Study of Society (1894). He called the attention of U.S. scholars to contemporary German-language social theories, particularly those of the Austrian soldier and philosopher Gustav Ratzenhofer, whose ideas strongly influenced Small’s General Sociology (1905).

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