FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIOMETRY

Abstract

The discovery that human society has an actual, dynamic, central structure underlying and determining all its peripheral and formal groupings may one day be considered as the cornerstone of all social science. This central structure- once it has been identified-is either found or discernible in every form of human society, from the most primitive to the most civilized: it is in the genesis of every type of society. In addition, it exerts a determining influence upon every sphere in which the factor of human interrelations is an active agent-in economics, biology, social pathology, politics, government, and similar spheres of social action.