Comte had earlier expressed his work as " social physics ", but that term had been appropriated by others, most notably a Belgian statistician, Adolphe Quetelet ( 1796 1874 ).
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His most recent book is " Social Physics " which describes research that won both the McKinsey Award from Harvard Business Review and the 40th Anniversary of the Internet Grand Challenge.
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In his 1835 text on social physics, in which he presented his theory of human variance around the average, with human traits being distributed according to a artificial or natural selection to operate.
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It has also been applied to social physics where a homeokinetics analysis shows that one must account for flow variables such as the flow of energy, of materials, of action, reproduction rate, and value-in-exchange.
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When Auguste Comte discovered that Quetelet had appropriated the term'social physics', which Comte had originally introduced, Comte found it necessary to invent the term'sociologie'( sociology ) because he disagreed with Quetelet's collection of statistics.
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Writing in the journal " Sociometry ", Stewart set out an " agenda for social physics . " Comparing the microscopic versus macroscopic viewpoints in the methodology of formulating physical laws, he made an analogy with the social sciences:
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In it, he outlines the project of a social physics and describes his concept of the " average man " ( " l'homme moyen " ) who is characterized by the mean values of measured variables that follow a normal distribution.
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In the late 1800s, Adams separated human physics into the subsets of social physics or social mechanics ( sociology of interactions using physics-like mathematical tools ) and social thermodynamics or sociophysics, ( sociology described using mathematical invariances similar to those in thermodynamics ).
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In the field of cyber-security, a team headed by MIT has shown how the concept of social physics, manifested as mathematical invariances that are embedded in large datasets, can be used in order to generate new and highly efficient types of attacks on behavioral information.
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Auguste Comte first coined the word'sociology'in the fourth volume of " The Course of Positive Philosophy ", as a substitite for'social physics', the expression he and others had used hitherto for this area of human studies . talk ) 23 : 37, 27 February 2008 ( UTC)
