It's a force but its only one force in a wide buffet table of forces that larger and larger groups of people are getting conscious about.
Many of these forces and their underlying particles, waves, energies and fields haven't even been named yet or are just hard to measure at individual or population scales.
We aren't talking about electromagnetism here where Coulomb, Gauss and Maxwell have produced neat equations.
Sociology, Psychology and the under lying Neurochemisty/biology are where electromagnetic theories were in the 18th century. Within any tribe there are wide spectrums of personality types, biases, needs, motivations, group dynamics, leadership styles, genetic variations etc etc etc and when all that gets added up you have this massive ever changing hurricane like structure. It props up an Obama on one day and dumps a Hillary on another, irrespective of what their tribes do.
Nothing is obvious.
Yet.
We still await the arrival of a Faraday or a Maxwell in those fields.
Many of these forces and their underlying particles, waves, energies and fields haven't even been named yet or are just hard to measure at individual or population scales.
We aren't talking about electromagnetism here where Coulomb, Gauss and Maxwell have produced neat equations.
Sociology, Psychology and the under lying Neurochemisty/biology are where electromagnetic theories were in the 18th century. Within any tribe there are wide spectrums of personality types, biases, needs, motivations, group dynamics, leadership styles, genetic variations etc etc etc and when all that gets added up you have this massive ever changing hurricane like structure. It props up an Obama on one day and dumps a Hillary on another, irrespective of what their tribes do.
Nothing is obvious.
Yet.
We still await the arrival of a Faraday or a Maxwell in those fields.