The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c5.s4.17

c5.s4.17

The "sociologistic school" of sociology is described by Sorokin as that which interprets social or psychical facts as due to "interactions" and as the results of "correlation with a certain social condition." Among the first exponents of this school also he finds the *Dhammapada* and the *Upaniṣads* as well represented as Confucianism and Plato's *Republic* (pp. 435-436). The bulk of the old Indian philosophy and ethics (especially that of Buddhism), says he, is based upon the idea that our "I" or "Self" with its empirical properties, sufferings and joys is a product of social contact and exists as long as the contact exists.