ABSTRACT
Classical sociology consists of both social dynamics and statics. In social dynamics, sociological dichotomies that are based upon two-stage models of social development have gained currency. Herbert Spencer proposed such a dichotomy in his two-stage model of the development from militaristic to industrial society. Similarly, such dichotomies are discernible in Henry J.S. Maine’s model of development from status to contract, in Ferdinand Tönnies’ model of passage: Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft, and in Emile Durkheim’s model of development: mechanical to organic solidarity.
