Full Description
Cessante causa, cessat effectus (when the cause ceases, the effect ceases) is applicable for every existing type of social pathology. In Project for a Scientific Sociology, Joan Casser provides an operational overview of inter-individual behavior. He develops the research of Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, Russian neurologist Ivan Pavlov, Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, et al., as a means to examine energy transference in society. Prediction, motion, operant conditioning, crime, punishment, security, and law-governed behavior are reviewed socio-logically. Casser commences with worked matter and ends with the state in this causal configuration of inter-individual behavior.
Contents
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Matter
1.1 Substance
1.2 Motion
1.3 Work
1.4 Energy
1.5 Sound
1.6 Light
2 Prediction
2.1 Causality
2.2 Observation
2.3 Hypothesis
2.4 Probability
2.5 Testing
2.6 Evidence
3 Individual and Group
3.1 Number
3.2 Unit and Multiplicity
3.3 Set
3.4 Operation
3.5 Relation
3.6 Function
4 Behavior
4.1 Law-Governed Behavior
4.2 Individual Behavior
4.3 Social Behavior
4.4 Operant Behavior
4.5 Random Behavior
4.6 Linguistic Behavior
5 Law
5.1 Norm
5.2 Legal System
5.3 Punishment
5.4 Security
5.5 Crime
5.6 State
Bibliography
Index
