Albion Woodbury Small Born : May 11, 1854 Died : February 12, 1926 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Albion Woodbury Small Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society. Albion Woodbury Small modern born sociology The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism. Albion Woodbury Small civilized-nations aberration problem Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth. Albion Woodbury Small analysis technique philosophy