ABSTRACT
An acquaintance with the literature of sociological theory in general clearly reveals that theory construction in sociology lacks a coherent rationale. There is widespread disagreement not only about the methods of social enquiry but about the nature of the discipline itself, the role of ideological commitment and the nature of human action. The contingent difficulties of matching what is alleged to be the causal paradigm of the physical sciences have led many sociologists to propose different ways of handling explanations of human behaviour. In the natural sciences, the notion of forces operating within a closed system so as to maintain that system in a steady state suggests stable or unstable mechanical systems within the field of statics. But dynamical processes also exhibit equilibrium given changes in certain key variables within the system.
