214 THE SOCIAL THEORY OF GEORG SIMMEL
problems. The difference in social content will then overshadow
 the similarity in social form, and the full meaning
of Simmel’s illustrations and inductions will escape us.
But once this process of differentiation has been mastered,
there are no insurmountable obstacles of technique. The
task of the science will then reveal itself as identical with
the task of all other sciences within their special field.
That task is to find the laws or, avoiding all metaphysical
implications, to find phenomenological relationships with
sufficiently high degrees of correlation to give a high probability
 of repetition.
The correlations of sociology are correlations between
social forms and determining factors, and only by increasing
 the number of such correlations can we build a theory
of the processes of socialization which will result in a science
 of association.