ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the types of systems of social relationships and their changes, viewed from the quantitative standpoint. If a social system embraces all the relationships of its members, regulates their entire behavior and all their interrelations, the extensity of the social system is unlimited, or totalitarian. The number of social relationships involved in such a system is enormous. In actual reality there has hardly ever been a social group either of the absolutely totalitarian or absolutely laissez-faire type. But some of the real social groups in their system of social relationships have been nearer to the totalitarian, while some others have favored the "liberal" or "anarchistic" type. The most important are three: war or peace; economic impoverishment or prosperity; social emergency of any kind. Many other social relationships undergo a similar shift. The liberties and rights of the subjects or citizens are enormously curtailed.
