The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c5.s4.14

c5.s4.14

The "bio-organismic school of sociology" is described as having predecessors among the Hindus as among the Chinese, Greeks and Romans. In regard to the comparison of a society, particularly of a state in its social classes, institutions and social processes with an organism, especially with man or with his body and soul, or with parts of his body and bodily processes Sorokin commences with passages from Manu and then passes on to Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca and others (pp. 197-198).