John MacionisIn hmolscience, John Macionis (1947-) is an American sociologist noted for []

Overview
In 2008, Macionis, in his Sociology: A Global Introduction, coauthored with Ken Plummer, discussed German sociologist Max Weber—who notably built his entire sociology theory platform following an influential age fourteen reading of Goethe’s physical chemistry based Elective Affinities, a book wherein it is argued that humans are like molecules, aka human molecular theory, both similar in nature, differing in but metamorphosized size (see: Weberian elective affinity)—after which they give five points on the so-called limitations of “scientific sociology” (see: two cultures namesakes), namely that human behavior is too complex to allow for prediction, and then states the following contradictory unbridgeable gap model:

“Human behavior differs from all other phenomena precisely because human beings are symbolic, subjective creatures. Human beings—unlike planets or molecules—are always constructing meaning. What marks us off from other animals is the elaborate symbolic systems we weave for ourselves. Therefore, sociologists cannot simply study societies from the outside; they have to take on board ways of ‘entering’ these worlds of meaning.”

Macionis here, like many American sociologists, seems to be unaware, firstly that the earth-as-molecule (earth molecule) definition exists, and secondly and more importantly that the human-as-molecule approach, similar to the 1993 cell-as-molecule approach, with calculated 26-element human molecular formula, is a newly emerging definitional position of a human, employed in ecological stoichiometry (Ecological Stoichiometry, 2002) and thermodynamics (Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics), and that the human molecule perspective has a long history in social mechanics and social mechanism theories. [2]
Molecules vs people (Macionis)
A visual rendition of the "human molecular engineering" (molecular sociology + engineering, pure and applied), based on the new 21st century thermodynamics textbook 26-element "molecular formula" or human molecule definition of a human (see: HMS pioneers), the extrapolate up principle, and the "there is, after all, only one nature" Goethean philosophy viewpoint (see: Goethe's advertisement). [5]

Shown adjacent, to given an idea of the comparison of people to smaller atoms and molecules, is a color accentuated comparison of molecular sociology to Macionis' 2008 Sociology textbook. [3]

For whatever puzzling reason, while chemistry, physics, and thermodynamics based social mechanics and social mechanism theories of sociology were in the mid to early 20th century considered the "fundamental forms" (Werner Stark, 1962) and or "contemporary sociology" (Pitirim Sorokin, 1932), the teaching of these subjects have completely disappeared from the modern 21st century school of American sociology? American sociologist Leon Warshay has recently given some commentary as to why this has occurred.

References
1. Macionis, John. (2008). Sociology: A Global Introduction (molecules, pgs. 54-55). Pearson Education Limited.
2. (a) Sterner, Robert W. and Elser, James J. (2002). Ecological Stoichiometry: the Biology of Elements from Molecules to the Biosphere (chapter one) (human molecule, empirical formula pg. 3; discussion, pgs. 47, 135). Princeton University Press.
(b) Annamalai, Kalyan, Puri, Ishwar K., and Jog, Milind A. (2011). Advanced Thermodynamics Engineering (§14: Thermodynamics and Biological Systems, pgs. 709-99, contributed by Kalyan Annamalai and Carlos Silva; §14.4.1: Human body | Formulae, pgs. 726-27; Thims, ref. 88). CRC Press.
3. Macionis, John. (2007). Sociology. Publisher.

External links
● John J. Macionis (faculty) – Kenyon College, Ohio.
● Sociology – Macionis.com.
● Macionis, John J. – WorldCat Identities.

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