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Systematic study of social behaviour in terms of time may bring to light patterns worthy of investigation. For this, a terminology is needed, and some physical terms might usefully be applied to sociology.
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YOUNG, M., ZIMAN, J. Cycles in Social Behaviour. Nature 229, 91–95 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/229091a0
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