In hmolscience, Franklin Giddings (1855-1931) was an American sociologist and economist noted for []“The theory of social equilibration posits that "all social activities tend to equilibrium, but for an indefinite period it may be a moving equilibrium." Since all energy is physical energy, social energy is transformed physical energy. To secure equilibration there must be a constant redistribution of matter and motion. Either population becomes denser and more closely integrated or there is more mobility and a tendency toward "social dissolution." These continual adjustments between population and environment to maintain equilibration make a perfect equilibrium in society impossible and the result is a "moving equilibrium".”
“Adequacy, and therefore the ultimate effectiveness of societal energies, is measured by two sets of correlations, namely: (I) The negative correlation of birth rate and the positive correlation of death rate with hereditary defect. (2) The positive correlation of birth rate and the negative correlation death rate with conditioned intelligence. These correlations measure the net value of human society; the net value of the existing, or of any possible societal order. They are a value measure of regress. They should be ascertained not only for entire populations, but also for component d constituent groups, because the shifting of these, when so measured, will indicate the trend of our civilization. They should be ascertained for color races, for the native and foreign born, for nationalities, for local communities, for kindreds and families, the adherents of religious sects, for the alumni of colleges and universities, and for occupations.”
“To teach the theory of state to these who have not learnt the first principles of Sociology is like teaching astronomy or thermodynamics to men who have not learnt Newton’s law of motion.”— Franklin Giddings (1896), Principles of Sociology (Ѻ)
“Social evolution is but a phase of cosmic evolution. All social energy is transmuted physical energy. The conversion of physical into social energy is inevitable, and it necessarily occasions those orderly changes in groupings and relationships that constitute development.”— Franklin Giddings (1896), Principles of Sociology (pgs. 363-64)
“A sociology which follows society back to quanta and electrons and projects telesis into a new heaven and earth, cannot hope to escape satirical description as a science of organized smatter.”— Franklin Giddings (1929), Publication; cited (Ѻ) by Robert Bannister (1987)