Semi-quantitative sociology

Therefore, in comparing physico-chemical and sociological systems in terms of synergetics the structural and global aspects of dynamic systems are stressed rather than the more detailed aspects of particular models. In this sense it may be better to call the theory of this book semi-quantitative sociology. 

Another important way in which semi-quantitative sociology may allow progress lies in the necessary clear separation between the objective neutral description of sociological structures, on the one hand, and the valuation of moral aspects and the estimation of the content of truth of ideologies on the other. 

Opinion Formation - an Elementary Example of Semi-Quantitative Sociology... 

If semi-quantitative sociology is to make any sense, it cannot evade the question as to whether it should contribute to the investigation of the great problems and threats of our era that arise from the existence of competing macrosocieties. The question leads back to the general problems discussed at the end of Chap. 1 and this discussion should now be resumed in the light of the other chapters and with respect to the current state of macrosociety relationships. 

Sociology, in particular semi-quantitative sociology, has an interesting property It is simultaneously a metalever and a sublevel of the society ... 

Semi-quantitative sociology seems to be particularly suitable for a meta-ideological approach in looking sine ira et studio at the effects of economic and ideological marcrovariables on the dynamics of societies. 

The following question, however, has to be reconsidered In which sense do the potential achievements of a semi-quantitative sociology go beyond those of a meta-ideological but traditional qualitative sociology ... 

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