Abstract

At the present time, Sociology has attained a position of some respectability in the intellectual world. But one finds philosophers rather reserved in their welcome for the new science or even inclined to view it with suspicion, due at times to the origin of Sociology in Comte’s positivist philosophy, at other times to the extravagance of its claims to explain society, to the doubtful validity of the results it has produced, or the nebulous character of so much of its literature. Sometimes it has been the very attempts of the Sociologists to free themselves from philosophical preconceptions that has led the orthodox philosophers to question the value of their approach to the problems of society.