Cardona, Andrés: The Programmatic Bias in the Discussion on Social Mechanisms in Sociology. In: . Jg.23. 2013
Inhalt
- Impressum Nr. 23 neu Readers
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- Abstract
- Keywords
- Social mechanisms, mechanistic explanations, causation, causal explanation, analytical sociology
- Introduction
- Setting the Stage: A Brief Reconstruction of the Mechanistic Agenda in Sociology
- Individual Agendas and the Definition of Social Mechanisms
- The Magnitude of the Confusion
- How Programmatic Considerations Influence the Definition of Mechanisms: An Example
- The Confusing Opposition of Mechanisms and Mechanistic Explanations to Laws
- Mechanistic Explanations and Generalizations
- Mechanisms and Lawfulness
- Are Programmatic Claims Necessary?
- Concluding Remarks
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