ABSTRACT

For thousands of years men have observed and reflected upon the societies and groups in which they live. Yet sociology is a modern science, not much more than a century old. Auguste Comte, in his classification of the sciences, made sociology both logically and chronologically posterior to the other sciences, as the least general and most complex of all And one of the greatest of modern anthropologists observed that ‘the science of human society is as yet in its extreme infancy’.1