ABSTRACT
The study of the human group is a part of sociology, but a neglected part. As the science of society, sociology has examined the characteristics and problems of communities, cities, regions, big organizations like factories, and even whole nations, but it has only begun to study the smaller social units that make up these giants. Sociology has been gorged with facts; it needs to digest them. If an old theory survives new conquests of science, it survives as a slave. The method of abstraction seems to create no such mental conflict in physics as it does in sociology. Clinical science is what a doctor uses at his patient's bedside. An analytical science is for understanding but not for action, at least not directly. The social scientists are not competing, and cannot compete, with the literary artists. They are doing a different job. Some schools of business administration also teach by cases, but with almost the opposite purpose.
