The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s5.15

c11.s5.15

Breloer would perhaps like to furnish new hints to the geographical sociologists who are travelling in the wake of Ratzel, Le Play, Matteuzzi, Barth and others. In recent years there have been scholars who have attempted to out-Buckle Buckle in the "climatological interpretation" of history. But as a result of intensive investigations, e.g., of Durkheim, Brunhes, Thurnwald, Lowie, Vallaux and others it is impossible to demonstrate a regular or substantial "correlation" between climate, nature and geographical conditions, on the one hand, and economic structure, religion, family life, social organization and polity on the other.²⁸