ABSTRACT
The socio-historical actuality, society in the broader sense of the term, consists of the sum of all individuals concurring in reciprocal relations, together with all the interests which unite them. Sociology as a special science, however, rests on an entirely different abstraction from the social phenomena and results from viewing the socio-historical actuality from a quite different standpoint. The subject-matter of psychology is not the content of consciousness, but the form of the psychological occurrences, the laws of the psychological processes. Psychology and sociology are both sciences dealing with psychical phenomena, but the one deals with the form of the psychological process, the other with the form of the sociological process. The difference between psychology, sociology, and the social sciences rests on the distinction between the categories of cognition and results from the different standpoints from which the socio-historical actuality may be viewed.
