ABSTRACT
Social events are molded by human hands, so whatever the other determining influences are, the human factor as the agent of social events should in no instance be ignored. Consequently, individual psychology is not suitable for understanding social movements and the evolution of social events, since an individual personality cannot personify a whole society or nation. Issues of a social nature were also addressed in Suggestion and its Role in Social Life, a work by the present author first published in 1898. Any social activity, irrespective of the circumstances that generated it, has an element of the highest order, or, to be more precise, a reflexological element. While reflexology studies the manifestations of individual correlative activity, collective reflexology studies the same activity of the collective. Abundant material for the latter is provided by those periods in national history which, accompanied by tumultuous social movements, lead to a coup detat.
