ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the appearance of common and familiar features of social behavior as conformity to norms, status systems, distributive justice or the lack of it—more generally the appearance of social structures. Societal functionalism, though it may not satisfy the mind by accounting for enough details of social behavior, at least possesses general propositions and a deductive system of a limited sort. The condition of much so-called theoretical work in sociology is more seriously deficient. Some behavioral psychologists, who talked that way inadvertently because their minds were on other matters and not because they did not really know better-and these included the author-left the impression that, given the physical equipment that enabled them to do so and suitable contingencies in the way of reward and the like, human beings could learn all kinds of behavior with equal ease.
