ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasizes upon symbolic behavior and upon social organization—and by doing so to suggest a fruitful, systematic, perspective from which the traditional problems of social psychology might be viewed. Psychiatrists and psychologists underestimate immensely the influence of social organization upon individual behavior and individual structure; and conversely that sociologists, whose major concern is with social organization, must in much of their research depend upon some kind of social psychology. That kind of association between sociology and social psychology began as far back as the 1890's when sociologists first had broken loose from political science and history, and were seeking general laws of societal and group behavior. It is unlikely that the general fields of psychology and psychiatry will change their traditional foci or abandon cherished assumptions anymore than one would expect sociologists and anthropologists to yield their preoccupation with social organization and culture.
