Excerpt from Economic Foundations of SocietyModern sociologists are still groping about for a point of de parture from which to explain the complex of social phenom ena. It was easier for the philosophers of.the last century, for all were then agreed that Society was to be rightly constituted by victorious Analysis. But Philosophism has had its day, and Positivism now reigns in the domain of social science. We no longer hope to reconstitute society upon a.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.