Social mechanisms and social causation

The aim of this paper is to examine the notion of social mechanisms by comparison with the notions of evolutionary and physical mechanisms. It is argued that social mechanisms are based on trends, and not lawlike regularities, so that social mechanisms are different from mechanisms in the n...

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Autor principal:	Friedel Weinert
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	DE EN FR
Publicado:	Editura ASE Bucuresti 2014
Materias:	ideal types mechanisms (evolutionary, physical, social) natural selection rainbows regularities slave trade social causation trends Weber Economics as a science HB71-74
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:8ea1958c37bd49999bd1426d0040edac2021-12-02T01:04:30ZSocial mechanisms and social causation1843-22981844-8208https://doaj.org/article/8ea1958c37bd49999bd1426d0040edac2014-11-01T00:00:00Z http://jpe.ro/pdf.php?id=6645 https://doaj.org/toc/1843-2298https://doaj.org/toc/1844-8208The aim of this paper is to examine the notion of social mechanisms by comparison with the notions of evolutionary and physical mechanisms. It is argued that social mechanisms are based on trends, and not lawlike regularities, so that social mechanisms are different from mechanisms in the natural sciences. Taking as an example of social causation the abolition of the slave trade, this paper argues that social mechanisms should be incorporated in Weber’s wider notion of adequate causation in order to achieve their explanatory purposeFriedel WeinertEditura ASE Bucurestiarticleideal typesmechanisms (evolutionary, physical, social)natural selectionrainbowsregularitiesslave tradesocial causationtrendsWeberEconomics as a scienceHB71-74DEENFRJournal of Philosophical Economics, Vol VIII, Iss 1, Pp 2-24 (2014)
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description	The aim of this paper is to examine the notion of social mechanisms by comparison with the notions of evolutionary and physical mechanisms. It is argued that social mechanisms are based on trends, and not lawlike regularities, so that social mechanisms are different from mechanisms in the natural sciences. Taking as an example of social causation the abolition of the slave trade, this paper argues that social mechanisms should be incorporated in Weber’s wider notion of adequate causation in order to achieve their explanatory purpose
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Social mechanisms and social causation

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