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Social structure and stratification is governed by (i) prestige and esteem, (ii) male and female, (iii) age groups, (iv) caste and class and (v) occupation, status and similar factors. 

The evolutionary path of human society is a resultant of two types of forces the force of fusion and the force of fission. The factors responsible for the first type of forces are tribalism, language, group loyalty, common tastes and values. But wars, conquest, passions and slavery are responsible for creating forces of fission. 

In examining the problems related to social dynamics, the main difficulty is to identify the relevant variables governing the cause-effect processes involved and their relative importance. In some cases such as problems related to vehicular traffic, this is relatively simple [8]. 

In order to illustrate how the concepts developed in earlier chapters can be utilized for studying social dynamics, we will comment on problems related to public opinion, urbanization and population dynamics in the next sections. 

Actions of social groups are of co-operative nature, but the actions of individuals are determined by complex factors. Social dynamics involves many subsystems, on account of which the following sequence of steps to be undertaken is necessary, viz. 

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Matters are complicated further when we try to expand inter(trans)disciplinary work beyond natural sciences, including social sciences such as sociology, history, philosophy etc. This inevitably springs the trap of statistical debates and the factuali-zation of the research work of all the included disciplines. This is of course a dead end and will never ever lead to solutions with a broad consensus, which will also become politically important. 

Survey Graphic, Color Unfinished Business of Democracy, (Nov. 1942). Other issues devoted entirely to race include Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Minority Peoples in a Nation at War (Sept. 1942) Journal of Negro Education, The American Negro in World War I and World War II (Summer 1943) Journal of Educational Sociology, The Negro in the North during Wartime (Jan. 1944) and Race Relations on the Pacific Coast (Nov. 1945). 

Addiction is a complex behavior that refers to compulsive drug use. Addiction research is one of the few scientific areas that involves the biological and social sciences neurobiology, psychology, and sociology. Because of its complexity, there is much disagreement on the precise medical definition of addic-... 

Cole, Jonathan R, and Harriet Zuckerman, 1975, The emergence of a scientific specialty The self-exemplifying case of the sociology of science, In The Idea of Social Structure Papers in Honor of Robert K. Merton, edited by Lewis A, Coser, 140-143. New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,... 

SCOTT FRICKEL is an assistant professor of sociology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he teaches courses on science and technology studies, environmental sociology, and social movements. He has published several articles in scholarly journals and is co-editor of The New Political Sociology of Science Institutions, Networks, and Power (forthcoming). Chemical Consequences is his first book. 

The American Psychological Association (APA) recommends a documentation style for research papers in the social sciences. Your instructors in psychology and sociology classes, for example, may prefer that you use the APA form when you write essays for them. 

For conflicting views of the hegemonic relationship between philosophy, sociology and history see S. Fuller, Is History and Philosophy of Science Withering on the Vine , Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 21 (1991), pp. 149-74 J. Habermas, On the Logic of the Social Sciences, trans. S. W. Nicholsen and J. A. Stark (Cambridge, MA MIT Press, 1988), pp. 16-22. 

B. Barnes, T. S. Kuhn and Social Science (New York Columbia University Press, 1982), pp. 31 and 87 D. Bloor, Wittgenstein A Sociological Theory of Knowledge (New York Columbia University Press, 1983), p. 183 Barnes, T. S. Kuhn and Social Science, p. 87. 

G. Freudenthal, The Role of Shared Knowledge in Science Tlie Failure of the Constructivist Programme in the Sociology of Science , Social Studies o/ Science, 14 (1984), pp. 285-95, pp. 286-8. 

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