ABSTRACT
The wisdom and the accumulated store of knowledge of the ages must surely count for something in the field of human behaviour. There are also lessons we could learn from more recent human involvement in crime, social deviance, aggression and war. If one questions the necessity of a social order at all, it may well be that values and standards of morality are irrelevant. Society is composed of individuals, of people; but society is more than the individuals whom it comprises. It is true that men can and do change society, but it is also true that other things - inventions, events, revolutions - all help to change society. Facts are stubborn things, but sociologists know only too well that facts are open to a variety of interpretations, and that the evaluation of the same data will differ from one researcher to another. Society is composed of individuals, of people; but society is more than the individuals whom it comprises.
