ABSTRACT
Because of the human drives, people are compelled to form bonds with each other through which they can satisfy these drives. Moreover, people are not only connected to each other in terms of the provision of objects and auxiliaries, but also in terms of the engenderment of drives. In fact, the matter of study of these social bonds forms one of the main themes in sociology. It would be easy, as many strands of social thinking have done, to dissect society into its smallest component part, being the individual human being, and study it. Afterwards, it would only be a matter of multiplication of its actions and drawing conclusions. In solving questions of an empirical and often also a political nature that address merely the ‘here and now’, many social scientists still adopt this line of thinking. The studies that are produced in this sense are often riddled with statistical analyses and discuss the characteristics of commonalities or differences between human beings in the present. Of course, these types of study are not useless. On the contrary, they provide us with useful information on the current state of affairs. In its totality, though, it does not satisfy a question for an understanding of the developments of society and its structure. A dissectional approach, if such a term may be used, also faces difficulties attempting to distinguish itself from other disciplines that study humans.
