Handlungsprinzipien oder Systemgesetze: über Traditionen und Tendenzen theoretischer Sozialerkenntnis
In: Die Einheit der Gesellschaftswissenschaften 109
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In: Die Einheit der Gesellschaftswissenschaften 109
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In: Analyse & Kritik: journal of philosophy and social theory, Volume 8, Issue 2, p. 178-190
ISSN: 2365-9858
Abstract
Theoretical thinking in modern sociology is still dominated by a morked anti-individualistic orientation. This paper examines the influence that Parsons' critique of utilitarian social thought had on the formation and justification of this methodological view. Since then the utilitaristic (economic) tradition is held to demonstrate the fundamental weakness of individualistic sociological approaches in general: the failure to grasp the importance of emergent properties of social systems. It is argued that Parsons' critique rests on a by far too restrictive Interpretation of utilitaristic (economic) thinking which led to a false identification of social-scientific individualism with sociological atomism.
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