SOCIAL SCIENCE FOUNDED ON A UNIFIED NATURAL SCIENCE 481 



begin by gathering from psychology and the rest of natural sci- 

 ence a sound description of man as he is a stable organism in 

 a generally stable environment striving after certain general 

 goals, not neglecting, however, data on individual and racial 

 differences and possible evolutionary processes. 



On this borrowed foundation it would then pursue its own 

 researches, oriented not only to general theory, but toward 

 application of this theory to concrete societies and events. Its 

 first proper task would be to determine and classify inter- 

 mediate goals and to evaluate them in terms of the stable 

 goals established by psychology and biology. Also it would 

 study the general types of habit and behavior which function 

 as means to such intermediate and ultimate goals. At this 

 point the existence of certain universal social forms would be- 

 come evident and intelligible. In particular it would become 

 apparent that the study of human behavior must give special 

 consideration to the way in which the individual as an organic 

 unit has a certain control over his own behavior, how the family 

 is required by the interdependence of such units and how it has 

 its own type of social control, and finally how the limitations 

 of the family make necessary some larger total society with its 

 own social control and with the power to supply the needs of 

 all its members. 



Thus besides a general study of the roots of human behavior 

 there must be a three-fold sociology of the individual, the 

 family, and the total society as each has a different natural 

 origin and each its own mode of control. These are independent 

 of each other in some measure and yet also interrelated so that 

 the individual must be seen in his familial role, and the family 

 in its social role. 



The sociology of the total society would deal with the soci- 

 ology of knowledge, of religion and of professional groups, the 

 sociology of government (political science) , and the sociology 

 of economic groups. These sets of problems would not be 

 separate disciplines but would be unified by the fact that all 



