ABSTRACT
Having analysed materials indicating the important part played by social behaviour in symbolic development, it will now be valuable to bring these facts together again into a more specific statement regarding the nature of symbolic integration, giving these social factors a clearer and more balanced place in the explanation. Three main conceptions are included in the term “integration.” The first is the dynamic or change-aspect involved in the coming together or the emergence of a new or different organization, co-ordination, or configuration. The second is the continuity and causal aspect, in that the emergence is from or out of previously existing correlations and processes and is dependent upon these. The third is the unitary aspect, i.e., the emergent or configuration constitutes some sort of a functional unit or working whole. A co-ordination and division of labour are indicative of this aspect. The problem is simply one of indicating previous processes, and of explaining how the new organization is created and of discovering what sort of functional unit or emergent it is.
