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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Main Author: Friedel Weinert
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Editura ASE Bucuresti 2014-11-01
Series:The Journal of Philosophical Economics
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Online Access: http://jpe.ro/pdf.php?id=6645