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statics and dynamics  

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  • Contemporary usage of the terms statics and dynamics has its roots in the work of Auguste Comte (1798–1857). Comte developed social physics, or what he eventually referred to as sociology (Comte was the first to use this term), during the 1830s in France. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Theory; Statics and Dynamics]

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