ABSTRACT
To treat the interrelations of anthropology and psychology from the point of view of psychology should presuppose agreement on the meaning and scope of the terms being related. Yet the state of affairs that makes the venture desirable includes the fact that the boundaries dividing the disciplines from one another and from sociology are by no means sharp, stable, or justified on obviously rational grounds. It is difficult to distinguish anthropology from sociology with respect to theoretical focus or principal reference point. It would be convenient if anthropology could be identified as the science of culture and sociology as the science of social structure or social systems—of the patterned interrelations of members of a society. Anthropologists have paid major attention to social structure with considerable substantive results. The sociologist has implicitly studied culture, even; when he has held to a general focus on social structure, which has major cultural components.
