The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c15.s2.9

c15.s2.9

This kind of sociology is called by Leopold von Wiese,³ the leading exponent, as *die Lehre von den sozialen Beziehungen und den sozialen Gebilden*, i.e., the science of social relations or processes (competition, co-operation, exploitation etc.) and social "forms" (such as the group, mass, state, people, nation, class etc.). It is sometimes shortly named the *Beziehungslehre* or science of relations. And the special feature of this science of relations consists in the fact that it deals not with historical or time-conditioned categories but with the categories such as are "above" or indifferent to time (*überzeitlich*) and somewhat eternal (*quasiewig*). These categories relate to such relations or processes of "to" and "away" from (*Zu-und Auseinander*) as prevailed, are prevailing and will prevail as long as there are human beings.