human
with a life--and a mind--of their own. That many active-minded people persist in looking askance at sociology--as
gpt
and
human
is not unnatural, since the science is still very young and its definition is still elastic. At certain points it necessarily comes in contact with biology, _e.g._ in the study of heredity and eugenics; with psychology, _e.g._ in the study of tradition and religion; with anthropology and history; with economics and politics. But it has a distinctive place to fill as the study of human integrates, of groups capable of acting, consciously or unconsciously, as unities, as more than the sum of their parts. When it has grown up and done more work, it will be justified, like Wisdom in general, of its children, and any discussion of its claims to be a