Reframing the social
Subtitle: emergentist systemism and social theory
By: Poe Yu-ze Wan
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781409411529; 9781409411536
Subjects: Ontology; Philosophy; Sociology; Social sciences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-237) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Re-ontologizing the reality: the ontological turn and Niklas Luhmann's social ontology; title: From Luhmannian systemtheorie to emergentist systemism; title: Emergence in perspective: epistemological totalausschluss or ontological novelty?; title: Systems theory as the antithesis of planning?; title: Causality in social science: from Niklas Luhmann to realism; title: Mechanismic explanation in social science: an assessment; title: Coda: s'il faut expliquer la société.