ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with 'social phenomena,' in the sense of the interindividual and intergroup relationships of which any social system or group, any organization or institution, is made up, which compose their "texture" and their "structure." From the study of the forms and fluctuations of aesthetic, scientific, philosophical, religious, and moral culture mentality, the chapter details the study of the social phase of the sociocultural phenomena. This class of sociocultural phenomena is again double in its nature: on the one hand it consists of the "objectively" existing network of social relationships among the interacting and contacting individuals and groups. On the other, the nature of these relationships, their "color," "qualification," and "evaluation," depends most closely upon the mentality of those who are involved in them or who deal with them. Without this mentality these relationships do not and cannot have any social meaning or sense. They are the Familistic, the Contractual, and the Compulsory types.
