214 THE SOCIAL THEORY OF GEORG SIMMEL 
problems. The difference in social content will then over- 
shadow 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 prob- 
ability of repetition. 
The correlations of sociology are correlations between 
social forms and determining factors, and only by increas- 
ing the number of such correlations can we build a theory 
of the processes of socialization which will result in a sci- 
ence of association.