ABSTRACT
The socio-cultural reflex consists of a multitude of individual attitudes and activities; socio-ethical equilibrium is the sum of activities of group-members accepting ethical rules and acting according to their content, with the conviction that the rules ought to be followed. Ethical rules are social rules in the sense that they are created by social interaction and therefore are practically the same for all group-members. Sociologists may represent a social group, from the viewpoint of securing the efficacy of ethical rules, as a complex of energy centers sending out waves of a specific quality — suggestive waves tending to secure the triumph of ethical rules. The very meaning of an ethical rule is the molding of behavior in accordance with it. The social pressure supporting ethical rules is nothing other than the sum of the individual recognitions of these rules, or, more exactly, of their social vectors.
