Social Problems

The preoccupations of any discipline are determined not only by the general desire to pursue truth in every corner of its province, but also by the problems offered by society to the scientist for solution. In a perfectly harmonised society, or harmonious union of societies, the sociologist would study only the nature and rules of social intercourse, and of social change, but societies are not harmonious, and the inclusive societies face one another with hostility and suspicion. A topic, or rather several topics, of maladjustment therefore present themselves, and sociologists and social psychologists have turned their minds to their investigation.