SOCIOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY oI 
to know is the cause of the mal-adaptation and the best way to 
secure adjustment, and for this De Greef’s logical scheme would 
not seem to be of much service. 
De Greef makes advance over both Comte and Spencer, also, 
in that he gives clearer content to the concept of society, holding 
that humanity is a social organism only at best potentially, and 
that the true social aggregates are the androgynous couple, the 
family, tribe, etc.,! moreover that the distinguishing feature of the 
social organism is a certain felt ‘‘ togetherness’? whether it be 
merely automatic and reflexive or thought out? 
1 Op. cit., p 71. 2 Op. cit., p. 131. 
