BookRix

What Is Society?--Perhaps The Great Question Which Sociology Seeks To
Answer Is This Question Which We Have Put At The Beginning. Just As
Biology Seeks To Answer The Question "What Is Life?"; Zoölogy, "What Is
An Animal?"; Botany, "What Is A Plant?"; So Sociology Seeks To Answer
The Question "What Is Society?" Or Perhaps Better, "What Is
Association?" Just As Biology, Zoölogy, And Botany Cannot Answer Their
Questions Until Those Sciences Have Reached Their Full And Complete
Development, So Also Sociology Cannot Answer The Question "What Is
Society?" Until It Reaches Its Final Development. Nevertheless, Some
Conception Or Definition Of Society Is Necessary For The Beginner, For
In The Scientific Discussion Of Social Problems We Must Know First Of
All What We Are Talking About. We Must Understand In A General Way What
Society Is, What Sociology Is, What The Relations Are Between Sociology
And Other Sciences, Before We Can Study The Social Problems Of To-Day
From A Sociological Point Of View.