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?
Authors
- Denis Podvoyskiy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7396-1828)
Institutions
- Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RU)
- Moscow State University (TJ)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya
- Published
- 2024-10-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.31857/s0132162524070141
- Primary Topic
- Economic Theory and Institutions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Russian Science Foundation