The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.
Ruth BenedictSociety in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.
Ruth BenedictRacism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.
Ruth Benedict