ABSTRACT
One task facing sociology in the twenty-first century is to revive critically those earlier traditions of sociological analysis that refused to abjure the complexity of life as it is actually lived out of a misguided fidelity to the artificial simplism of a theoretical schema. It is a task that requires a more realistic understanding of the human mind, its creations, and the hearing of both on collective consciousness and collective behaviour. The simplism that views the Occident and increasingly the world to be culturally homogeneous as globalization putatively sweeps aside various traditions seems, perhaps paradoxically, to be a result of the tyranny of tradition. The existence of objective mind, variously understood, has long been recognized by sociological theorists. The hearing of the anthropological and philosophical observations on sociology is cruciai to a proper understanding of the complexities of human action and cognition.
