In hmolscience, [NAME] Voronoff (c.1860-c.1930) was a Russian sociologist noted for his 1909 Foundations of Sociology, wherein he tries to interpret social phenomena, supposedly, from the standpoint of “social mechanics” or “social physics” (ΡΊ) and or “purely mechanistic” sociology; and defines, according to Pitirim Sorokin (1928), association and cooperation as “addition and multiplication of force”, war and social struggle as “subtraction of forces”, and social organization as “an equilibrium of forces. [1]
References
1. (a) Voronoff, NAME. (1909). Foundations of Sociology. Russia.
(b) Sorokin, Pitirim. (1928). Contemporary Sociological Theories (pdf) (§1: The Mechanistic School [pdf], pgs. 4-62). Harper & Brothers.
(c) Bierstedt, Robert. (1981). American Sociological Theory: a Critical History (pg. 309). Elsevier, 2013.
