Why is social life explicable, but unpredictable, or how does freedom give rise to determinism?

The article presents a critical reinterpretation and reconstruction of а key problem of social science: how a logically consistent and empirically substantiated explanation of social phenomena generated by the voluntarism of human actions, linked into complexes by a seemingly infinitely multiple contingency, is possible? In other words, we are talking about an attempt to answer the questions: how such a logically imaginary contingency is capable to generate elements of order at the empirical level, why social interactions have relative stability and reproducible character, what role do so-called unintended consequences of socially oriented (but dictated by «personal motives») human actions play in the processes of morphogenesis of society?

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Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya
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2024-10-13
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https://doi.org/10.31857/s0132162524070141
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Economic Theory and Institutions
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Why is social life explicable, but unpredictable, or how does freedom give rise to determinism?

Denis Podvoyskiy
Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya
Economic Theory and Institutions
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Why is social life explicable, but unpredictable, or how does freedom give rise to determinism?

Denis Podvoyskiy
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Abstract

The article presents a critical reinterpretation and reconstruction of а key problem of social science: how a logically consistent and empirically substantiated explanation of social phenomena generated by the voluntarism of human actions, linked into complexes by a seemingly infinitely multiple contingency, is possible? In other words, we are talking about an attempt to answer the questions: how such a logically imaginary contingency is capable to generate elements of order at the empirical level, why social interactions have relative stability and reproducible character, what role do so-called unintended consequences of socially oriented (but dictated by «personal motives») human actions play in the processes of morphogenesis of society?

Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya(7)
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RU), Moscow State University (TJ)
Russian Science Foundation
Gender equality, Reduced inequalities
Openalex Percentile: Top 78%
Economic Theory and Institutions
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