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The article cites a study which focuses on the race attitudes of a dominated group. Dominative behaviour is delined as the technique of responding to others by which a person resists differences, resists change and growth. This study is concerned exclusively with the professional African. In spite of the widely varying backgrounds revealed in this study, the Africans have all converged upon the same goal. The African is not without considerable psychological resources of his own when called upon to deal with the situation created for him by the dominative behaviour of the European. His awareness of group-belongingness makes it possible for him as an individual to confront the situation secure in the knowledge that his group provides him with a ground on which he can take his stand. His awareness of group-apartness enables him to bring into play all those powerful social attitudes that maintain the distinct identity of the in-group while challenging the pretensions of the out-group. His awareness of a group heritage and a group tradition, however over-evaluated, sentimentalized and distorted they may be, provides him with a set of cultural values in which he can take a pride and which he does not owe to the European.

Atomistic studies' relating specific norms of law to specific sorts of social change are plentiful. Holistic studies purporting to explicate general propositions relating rules and behavior can hardly be found. The few that do exist do hardly more than assure us, most sincerely, that yes, there really is a relationship between law and social change. What is needed is a general model relating law and social change. Here, is discussed (1) the definition of the problem; (2) its parameters: (3) an heuristic model and (4) a variety of "middle-level" hypotheses that can be suggested. The specific focus of this discussion is on Africa. So amorphous is the subject that there is no agreement even about the problem which requires attention. Most studies do not purport to explicate a general theory. Some, despite broader claims in their titles, are really no more than atomistic studies of specific laws. Among others two trends can be distinguished and one defines the problem out of academic interests.