Logico-meaningful method of P.A. Sorokin

              One cannot without trepidation undertake to comment upon the new social philosophy which has emerged from the ruins of a noisily
disintegrating and ever-ripe sensate culture. The sheer magnitude of Social and Cultural Dynamic!, together with the prodigious research
Professor Sorokin displays in analyzing all the compartments of culture over a period of twenty-five centuries without overlooking any part of our contemporary civilization, demands that a critic proceed warily. It is unfortunate in one respect that these pontifical tomes cannot be considered in their entirety, for such a possibility winili! relieve tin: impression that a lew weak points have been singled out for attack. Since, however, the catagory of space presses so urgently upon the denizens of sensate cultures, these remarks must be limited to a matter of more strictly sociological interest, namely, the "logtco-meaningful method" which the author presents in his introductory chapter. While a number of fallacies and inconsistencies require the employment of the forensic shillalah in opposition to this so-called method and the approach it represents, it is important to emphasize that subsequent statement! are intended in no way to impugn or to evaluate IWcssor Novokin's ninpiii/iiiitnii opus either as a philosophy of history or as a social philosophy in general. The purview of this paper
is stringently confined to an examination of the author's contribution to the methodology of sociology. After a cursory discussion and definition of "culture" Professor Sorokin classifies the interrelations of the elements and traits of culture into four basic types, (i) spatial or mechanical adjacency,(2) association due to an externa] factor, (3) functional or causal integration, and (4) internal or
logico-meaningful unity. Spatial or mechanical represents the lowest and loosest form of culture integration. Traits, attributes, customs,
mores, institutions, rites, ceremonies, and artifacts related only spatially