2 Quotes by David Lyon

...the consensus of modern sociology is at presuppositional variance with our Christian view of society. Sociology is one product of a world whose values and structures have been relativized. It is a product of the nineteenth-century rejection of a Christian world-view [sic]. It has assumed an authority of its own using 'society' as its only frame of reference.

It's too early to tell. The bigger factor now is the weather. The longer, wetter rainy season makes deciphering what's happening difficult.