Sociocultural Systems: Principles of Structure and Change

Abstract

But above all, the social scientist is trying to see the several major trends together—structurally, rather than as happening in a scatter of milieux, adding up to nothing new, in fact not adding up at all. This is the aim that lends to the study of trends its relevance to the understanding of a period, and which demands full and adroit use of the materials of history. — C. WrIgHt MIllS, 1959