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Why is social life explicable, but unpredictable, or how does freedom give rise to determinism?

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: 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?

Source: Социологические исследования

DOI: 10.31857/s0132162524070141

Author: Denis G. Podvoyskiy

Institutions: Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Russian Academy of Sciences, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Language: English

Topic: Critical Realism in Sociology

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Russian Science Foundation

Award: G5386442449