Sociology terminology upgrades

In physical science, sociology terminology upgrades or reforms, in the framework of the defunct theory of "socio-" perspective, are terms or synonym alternatives or upgrades to "socio" and all socio-centric terms, and their antonyms.

“When physics and chemistry have entered on the description, [sociology] disappears from the scene, it is an ‘anthropism’.”
Charles Sherrington (1938), Man on His Nature [1]

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Chemically-neutral terminology | Historical precursors
The following are chemistry-based proper and recognizable alternatives, with dated and cited "in usage" term substitute reform examples:

Chemical thermodynamically
(neutral / upgrade)

● Spiritual | Vis vivakinetic energy

(Lester Ward, 1903)
“I am always very chary about using such expressions as ‘spiritual phenomena’, because the word spiritual has almost become a synonym of supernatural. Yet the word is a perfectly proper one and ought to be redeemed and freely used, more nearly as a synonym of psychic in its widest sense, and I shall not hesitate so to use it. The last three chapters have been devoted to showing that spiritual phenomena are as much natural phenomena as physical phenomena, that spiritual forces are true natural forces, and that there is a spiritual energy, i.e., a psychic and social energy, that is as capable of doing work as any other form of kinetic energy. In fact it is the highest and most effective form of energy or vis viva.” [5]
● Sociable


(Mirza Beg, 1987)
“The smallest unit of a society, an individual, is incapable of independent existence by virtue of his being a social animal and there [being] a large number of interacting constraints on him. If we compare this situation with the properties of water it will be found that the presence of interacting forces which in this case are cohesive in nature, has completely changed its properties. In the absence of such cohesive forces, water may not even be in a liquid, it should have been a gas boiling at -90°C. The presence of cohesive forces makes the difference. Water is therefore a sociable or associated liquid, a case analogous with the social constraints on an individual which demand that he should be part of a society.” [4]

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The premise of sociology defined as the subject of study when people act "social" together is in need of a bit of terminology deanthropomorphization, similar to the way the non chemical thermodynamically neutral term "life" has recently found terminology reform, via life terminology upgrade usages. In other words, just as "physics and chemistry do not understand the word alive", as Charles Sherrington (1938) put cogently put it, in respect to the descent of the term down the great chain of being, evolution timeline, or molecular evolution table, so to, by like extrapolation do "physics and chemist not understand the term sociology", e.g. it is incorrect to say technically that hydrogen and oxygen interact socially together, because that is not "textbook chemistry" for reasons that should be apparent (i.e. it is "anthropomorphized chemistry" and hence a false or inaccurate description). [1]

A human, in short, is a powered molecule (Henry Swan, 1974), subsequently, while someone such as French chemist Jean-Marie Lehn, in his Supermolecular Chemistry (1995), may get away with making a refreshing paragraph jab at Goethe's Elective Affinities, using an Empedocles chemical aphorism stylized phraseology, alluding to the idea that supermolecules have some form of "sociology" together, as follows: [3]

“Supramolecular chemistry is a sort of molecular sociology! Non-covalent interactions define the inter-component bond, the action and reaction, in brief, the behavior of the molecular individuals and populations: their social structure as an ensemble of individuals having its own organization; their stability and their fragility; their tendency to associate or to isolate themselves; their selectivity, their ‘elective affinities’ and class structure, their ability to recognize each other; their dynamics, fluidity or rigidity or arrangements and of castes, tensions, motions, and reorientations; their mutual action and their transformations by each other.”

It is implicitly assumed that this as but amusing metaphor or analogy. If, however, Lehn was to posit these supramolecular castes, tensions, social structures, class structures, social associations, isolations, or selectivities, as being "real", i.e. existing in reality at the supramolecular level, his work would not be taken seriously, he would be labeled as a crackpot, and he would have never won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. The logic, therefore, applies at the human molecular level, i.e. in human chemistry. One may, for example, in human chemistry professionally speak of "inter-component bonds" existing between people (human molecules), e.g. see: human chemical bond, being that physics and chemistry do indeed understand the term "bond" quantifiably as an established and acceptable physical science concept, whereas, conversely, it is not permissible to speak of something "social" existing at the chemical level, being that this is an historical "anthropism", as Charles Sherrington (1938) would say, or "metaphysical" term, as Gilbert Lewis (1925) would classify things.

Clearly, then, by comparison to life terminology upgrade protocol initiatives, the future will see a certain amount of equivalent "socio terminology upgrades", but this is a task yet to be completed. It may be said, in terms of measured phenomena, that when a community of humans goes beyond the group size of 150 (Dunbar number), which would seem to have something to do with the surface-to-volume ratio issue (surface law), that printed rules, i.e. legislature (laws, codes, and constitution), and a hierarchy of structured power relationships, i.e. leaders and government, need to be established, beyond that of man-to-man contract (Malcolm Gladwell, 2000), if the growing community is to maintain stability, or else a natural split (debonding) will accrue when it reaches the 250+ level of population, owing to instability. Here, in this description, we have stripped the description of mention of anything "social" making the term redundant and hence something that does not exist, as Patricia Churchland (Ѻ) would argue.

The following are related quotes:

“What are the physical and chemical origins of diversity among inorganic and organic things, and how shall the adaptability of matter and energy be described? He may then see his way through all the difficulties which philosophical and biological thought have accumulated around a problem that in the final analysis belongs only to physical science, and at the end he will find a provisional answer to the question.”
Lawrence Henderson (1917), The Order of Nature [2]

See also
Life terminology upgrades

1. (a) Sherrington, Charles. (1938). Man on His Nature (disappears, pg. 260). CUP Archive, 1940.
(b) Quote (original): “When physics and chemistry have entered on their description of the perceptible, life disappears from the scene, and consequently death. Both are anthropisms.”
2. Henderson, Lawrence J. (1917). The Order of Nature (preface, pg. iii). Harvard University Press.
3. Lehn, Jean-Marie. (1995). Supramolecular Chemistry (pg. 2). VHC.
4. Beg, Mirza Arshad Ali. (1987). New Dimensions in Sociology: a Physico-Chemical Approach to Human Behavior (abs) (associated, pg. 23). Karachi: The Hamdard Foundation.
5. Ward, Lester F. (1903). Pure Sociology: a Treatise on the Origin and Spontaneous Development of Society (spiritual, pg. 167). MacMillan, 1907.

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