The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

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.

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.

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.