Tony Lawson

The Nature of Social Reality (eBook, ePUB)

Issues in Social Ontology

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The social sciences often fail to examine in any systematic way the nature of their subject matter. Demonstrating that this is a central explanation of the widely acknowledged failings of the social sciences, not least of modern economics, this book sets about rectifying matters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429581595
• Artikelnr.: 56861717

Autorenporträt

Tony Lawson is Professor of Economics and Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is also a co-Editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics and co-Founder of the Cambridge Realist Workshop and the Cambridge Social Ontology Group.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements. Part 1: Setting the context. 1. Why social
ontology?. Part 2: A general conception. 2. Ontology and the study of
social reality: emergence, organisation, community, power, social
relations, corporations, artefacts and money. Part 3: Topics in scientific
ontology. 3. The nature of the firm and peculiarities of the corporation.
4. The modern corporation: the site of a mechanism (of global social
change) that is out-of-control?. 5. A theory of money. 6. The positioning
and credit theories of money compared. Part 4: The nature and dynamics of
processes of emergence, reproduction and transformation. 7. Emergence,
morphogenesis, causal reduction and downward causation. 8. Collective
practices and norms. Part 5: Consequences for projects of human
emancipation. 9. Possibilities for emancipatory social change. Index