ABSTRACT
Sociology takes its place in the company of sciences that deal with man as man; that it is, in that specific sense, a humanistic discipline. An important consequence of this conception is that sociology must be carried on in a continuous conversation with both history and philosophy or lose its proper object of inquiry. This object is society as part of a human world, made by men, inhabited by men, and, in turn making men, in an ongoing historical process. It is not the least fruit of a humanistic sociology that it re-awakens our wonder at this astonishing phenomenon.
