ABSTRACT
If one lives at the boundaries of two subjects like sociology and social anthropology, weeks arise in which one spends the first half with sociologists and the second with social anthropologists. One becomes acutely aware of definitions and methods. Sociologists seem to lack a unity of purpose, a group consciousness, which social anthropologists have. This is perhaps the more surprising, in that anthropologists’ experience nowadays is not confined to the South Seas or to Africa. Members of the professional association may have done their fieldwork in villages in Europe, or in a London borough, or even in Manchester factories.
