Word: ogburn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plumbers & Aristotle. Sociologist William Fielding Ogburn, University of Chicago chairman of President Hoover's Commission on Social Trends, had much to say about the future of civilization: "More probably in the future there will be seen fewer attempts to learn it all and more attempts to learn only a part. . . . Society of the future will be one of greater and greater change . . . morality will have no place . . . right & wrong will give way to social expediency. . . . The units of organization will be larger . . . despite the set-back occasioned by the Treaty of Versailles. . . . Democracy will not be so successfully applicable...