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Book Department SAGE Publications, Inc.1964DOI: 10.1177/000271626435600120 SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY EARL W. COUNT and GORDON T. BOWLES (Eds.). Fact and Theory in Social Science. Pp. xv, 253. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1964. $5.50. Douglas G. Haring, as most readers of this journal know, is an anthropologist- sociologist, who, after 32 years on the faculty of Syracuse University, retired in 1961. And the present volume is a Fest- schrift offered him in his seventieth year by fourteen friends and former students. Bowles in the biographical sketch points out how Haring's first interest in cultural differences and social studies was aroused by his experiences as a young Baptist missionary in Japan. While on furlough in the early 1920's, he started advanced studies in sociology and psychology at Columbia, and in 1926 he was dismissed by the Baptist Mission Board, according to Bowles, for "doctrinal heresy," following which he returned to Columbia to study anthropology. It would be interesting to know if Haring's interest in behavioral science, despite his possession of a reputable Bachelor of Divinity degree, constituted the basis of his alleged "heresy," but Bowles does not say. In the short space allotted to this notice, I can merely mention