Sociomorphology (Pocket Classic)

Author: Habitus (French), translated by Wang Di
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This book primarily studies social morphology. According to Durkheim's definition, it is the study of various social material forms, treating social facts as "things" for analysis. Social morphology is divided into narrow and broad categories. Broad social morphology includes religious, political, and economic morphology. Narrow social morphology, i.e., demography, further examines spatial environments and the natural movement of populations from two aspects. Social morphology, like sociology, is first established on collective representations. We observe these material forms with the aim of identifying factors of collective psychology through them. Since society exists within the material world, collective thought finds a principle of regularity and stability in the representations of its spatial environment, just as individual thought needs to understand collective and spatial aspects to maintain balance.