ABSTRACT
Sociology establishes laws, and such social and historical laws are laws in the same sense as is used in the natural sciences. Natural sciences consist of many special sciences, specifically abstract and concrete sciences; similarly, history is a concrete sociological science while sociology is an abstract science. Similar to the natural sciences, sociology strives toward the coexistence of final causes; these are the given characteristics of individuals, psychological, biological, and other characteristics, which in the course of time are the sources of all the richness and fullness of social and historical phenomena. Sociological interpretations are often very complicated, depending on the nature of the subject matter. The natural desire for simplicity often leads to interpretations that cannot be described other than as forced. The use, or rather misuse, of analogies in sociology is encouraged by the relative status of our science with respect to other sciences, particularly psychology and biology.
