Walter F. Buckley

"Basic ingredients of the decision-making focus include, then: a process approach; a conception of tensions as inherent in the process; and , a renewed concern with the role and workings of man's enlar…"

"In a class system, the social hierarchy is based primarily upon differences in monetary wealth and income. Social classes are not sharply marked off from each other, nor are they demarcated by tangibl…"

"In Deutsch's view, to say that a social system is in equilibrium implies that: 1) it will return to a particular state when disturbed; 2) the disturbance is coming from outside the system; 3) the grea…"

"Only a modern systems approach promises to get the full complexity of the interacting phenomena - to see not only the causes acting on the phenomena under study, the possible consequences of the pheno…"

"In essence, the process model typically views society as a complex, multifaceted, fluid interplay of widely varying degrees and intentions and intensities of association and dissociation. The "structu…"

"The modern systems view, which flowered during World War II , has already borne its first fruits and is in danger of a superficial acceptance into the corpus of sociology by way of the incorporation o…"

"We have argued at some length in another place that the mechanical equilibrium model and the organismic homeostasis models of society that have underlain most modern sociological theory have outlived …"

"A system is more than the sum of its parts."