CHAPTER IX. The Sociological Presuppositions

THE SOCIOLOGICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS

Conceptions of the social unity: mechanical, biological, psychological--DeGreef's criticism of mechanical and biological analogies--Hierarchy of sciences: Comte and Baldwin--Baldwin's psychical abstractionism--Cooley's psychological conception of the nature of society seems most useful for purposes of this study--Cooley's view--Relation between Cooley and Giddings: the Social Mind--Summary of sociological doctrine--Critique of Davenport 72