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 analyzes social stratification as labor, wealth and power, the moral order as solidarity, ideology and morality, and culture systems as art, science, and religion.
Autorentext
By Gert H. Mueller - Edited by Joseph R. Pearce
Inhalt
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Social Theory and the Social Sciences
Part II: The Epistemological Functions of Logic
Part III: The Logical Foundations of Sociology
Part IV: The Logical Structure of Action
Part V: The Algebra of Analytical Sociology
Part VI: A Modal Analysis of Change
Bibliography
Sociological Theory
Logic and Philosophy of Science
Philosophy
Index