The Cultural Approach to Sociology

There is developing in the United States a definite challenge to the older sociological systems. The anthropological school has, through study of exotic peoples, gathered material wich makes evident the essentially philosophical nature of much sociological writing. The anthropologists are attacking the premises upon which the earlier social systems were erected. Neglect of the element of culture in society is advanced as the reason for sociological shorthcomings. What is culture, and how does it operate? A sound, and methodologically secure sociology, must in the future include a consideration of the cultural material that the anthropologists have brought to attention.