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"Sociology... is a science which attempts the interpretive understanding of social action in order thereby to arrive at a causal explanation of its course and effects."
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"Individual natures are merely the indeterminate material which the social factor determines and transforms."
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"... the human essence is no
abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality
it is the ensemble of social relations."
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"Self and Society
are twin-born, we know one as immediately as we know the other,
and the notion of a separate and independent ego is an illusion.
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