Principles of scientific sociology

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 General Introduction -- Objectives -- Method -- Contents -- Uses -- PART I: SOCIOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION -- 2 Introduction to Part I -- A Generic Definition of Social Phenomena -- Classical Definitions -- Modern Definitions -- Interaction -- Scope of the Generic Definition -- Equivalent Formulations of the Generic Definition -- Primary Distinctions Within Each Component of the Generic Definition -- Human and Nonhuman Organisms -- Physical and Psychical Behaviors -- Spatial and Temporal Regularities -- Social Structure, Cultural Structure, Spatial Regularity, and Temporal Regularity -- Independent Variability -- Analytic Inequality -- Causal Asymmetry -- Social Structure Plus Cultural Structure, and Spatial Regularity Plus Temporal Regularity -- The Complete Description of Social Phenomena -- Other Conceptualizations of Social Structure and Cultural Structure -- Social Structure, Cultural Structure, Spatial Regularity, and Temporal Regularity in Sociobiology -- 3 Social Structure -- Individual Physical Behaviors -- Directions, and Objects, of Effects -- A Sociological Typology of Individual Physical Behaviors -- Other Typologies of Individual Physical Behavior -- Destructive Physical Behaviors -- Within-Individual Aggregates of Physical Behaviors -- Role-Performance -- Role-Performance Set -- Across-Individuals Aggregates of Physical Behaviors -- Situses and Societal Social Structure -- Forms of Between-Individuals Physical Behavior Coincidence -- A Typology of Physical Behavior Coincidences Between Organisms -- Summary -- 4 Cultural Structure -- Individual Psychical Behaviors -- Modes of Orientation -- Referents of Orientation -- A Sociological Typology of Individual Psychical Behaviors -- Within-Individual Aggregates of Psychical Behaviors