WHY IS SOCIAL LIFE EXPLICABLE, BUT UNPREDICTABLE, OR HOW DOES FREEDOM GIVE RISE TO DETERMINISM?

Podvoyskiy D.G.

WHY IS SOCIAL LIFE EXPLICABLE, BUT UNPREDICTABLE, OR HOW DOES FREEDOM GIVE RISE TO DETERMINISM?

Дата публикации в реестре: 2025-05-27T14:19:58Z

Аннотация:

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?. © 2024, Russian Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Ключевые слова:
causality, cause-and-effect relationships, contingency, free will, methodology of social sciences and humanities, regularity, social action, social institutions, social relationship

Тип: Article

Источник: Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya