The logical foundations of social theory /

The Logical Foundations of Social Theory describes Gert Mueller's argument that physical, biological, social, moral, and cultural reality form an asymmetrical hierarchy of founding and controlling relationships that condition social reality rather than mechanically determining it. This book ana...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mueller, Gert H. (Gert Harald), 1922-
Otros Autores: Pearce, Joseph R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : University Press of America, 2014.
Temas:
Sociology.
Sociology > Philosophy.
Sociologie.
Sociologie > Philosophie.
sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Sociology
Sociology > Philosophy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The axes and types of sociological theory
  • Theory: pure and applied
  • The dual structure of science
  • Two types of a priori: contingent and transcendental
  • Truth functions and mapping functions
  • The first quadrant: contiguity and commutativity
  • The second quadrant: material implication
  • The third quadrant: intension and extension
  • The fourth quadrant: quantification and modality
  • The general structure of logic
  • The epistemological reformulation of logic
  • Disjunction and conjunction, identity and opposition
  • The logical analysis of society
  • The logical analysis of ethics
  • Basis and superstructure
  • Religion and morality
  • The architectonic of society
  • The architectonic of the mind
  • Equations, concordances, and emendations
  • Social consciousness and society
  • The analytics of action: means and ends
  • The analytics of belief: values and commitments
  • The analytics of thought: symbols and meanings
  • Causes, purposes, and functions
  • Trinomial foundational relationships
  • A trinomial analysis of social stratification
  • A trinomial analysis of the mind
  • A trinomial analysis of the intellect
  • The idealistic and the materialistic interpretation of society
  • The dialectic of social being and social consciousness
  • A modal analysis of change: optimum, lag, crisis, and constraint
  • The vicissitudes of ecology : plenty vs. dearth
  • The vicissitudes of political economy
  • The dynamics of the mind : reason and revolution
  • The intellect : universalism vs. particularism
  • Macroanalysis : the mind and society
  • Sociological theory
  • Logic and philosophy of science
  • Philosophy.

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