Sociological method can unify disciplines through shared abstract generality.

Evidence

In its very generality, this method is apt to form a common basis for problem areas that previously, in the absence of their mutual contact, lacked a certain clarity. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 1446

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dialectical thinking requires abstraction from existing forms to form general concepts. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 12; Logical abstraction is simultaneously a sociological abstraction. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 528; Handing critique off to sociology makes academic division of labor a methodological principle — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 701