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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483354103321

Autore

Fusari Angelo

Titolo

Methodological Misconceptions in the Social Sciences : Rethinking Social Thought and Social Processes / / by Angelo Fusari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

94-017-8675-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Disciplina

300.1

Soggetti

Social sciences

Social structure

Equality

Political theory

Law—Philosophy

Law

Methodology of the Social Sciences

Social Structure, Social Inequality

Political Theory

Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Theory -- Chapter 1. Preliminary Considerations on the Method of Social Thought -- Chapter 2. The Core of the Methodological Question: Procedure, Rules and Classifications -- Chapter 3. Heterogeneity of Methods in Social Thought: Weakness or Strength - Is there a Synthesis -- Chapter 4. Social Development and Historical Processes -- Chapter 5. On the Dynamics of Societies: Is there a Universal Theory? -- Part II. Some Applications -- Chapter 6. About Anthropology -- Chapter 7. Problems of Political Theory and Action -- Chapter 8. The Foundations of Law: Juridical Objectivism versus Jus Naturalism and Juridical Positivism -- Chapter 9. Some Insight on Sociological Thought: Rationality, Relativism and Social Evolution in Boudon-Weber's Cognitive Method -- Chapter 10. Further Meditations on Ethics: Values in the Light of



Religious Thought and its Opponents.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a systematic view of social analysis that will advance the communication of results between different academic disciplines. It overcomes misunderstandings that are due to the use of an unstructured variety of methodological traditions in the analysis of complex socioeconomic and political processes. The book focuses on the special features of human society: humans as subjects, non-repetitiveness and irreversibility of social actions, and the peculiar relations between necessity and possibility in human action. It defines methodological criteria, procedures and rules that enable researchers to select and classify realistic hypotheses to derive general principles and basic organizational features. It then applies these criteria in critical reviews of major theories and interpretations of society and history, offering clarifications and alternative proposals with regard to crucial aspects of anthropological, political, juridical, sociological, and religious thought.