In this sense, as the most general social science, it can provide the context for the findings of other,more specialized disciplines. Following Auguste Comte, we can make an analytic distinction between social dynamics and social statics. Social dynamics refers to those processes which account for the long term sociogenesis of any given social situation.
Social statics refers to the processeswhich account for the recurrence of similar situations.
Several examples,including the Milgram experiments, are used to illustrate the distinction and to demonstrate that social dynamics and social statics are complementary. Loic J.D. Wacquant 'Elias in the Dark Ghetto' Norbert Elias's figurational sociology offers a potent tool for dissecting the changing nexus of caste, class, and space in the American metropolis. Elias thus helps us spotlight the distinctively politi- cal roots of the urban patterning of racial and class exclusion of which today's hyperghetto is the concrete materialization. Ultimate fighting is a violent, bloody and highly controversial fighting contest, with hardly any rules. The discussion primarily focusses on the political question of the tolerability of cage fighting.