La sociologia di Merton: indeterminatezza dell’azione e delle strutture
In the paper I claim that the philosophical and scientific idea of indeterminacy is a leading – and not always explicit – theme of the thought of Merton. Some of the main contributions of Merton to sociology (his reflections on the concepts of unintended consequences of purposive social action, self...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:qds_764 https://doi.org/10.4000/qds.764 urn:doi:10.4000/qds.764 it https://journals.openedition.org/qds/764 2016-11-21T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/j9iv https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ La sociologia di Merton: indeterminatezza dell’azione e delle strutture Quaderni di Sociologia Rosenberg & Sellier info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2421-5848 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0033-4952 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/qds Martire, Fabrizio In the paper I claim that the philosophical and scientific idea of indeterminacy is a leading – and not always explicit – theme of the thought of Merton. Some of the main contributions of Merton to sociology (his reflections on the concepts of unintended consequences of purposive social action, self-fulfilling prophecy, latent function, sociological ambivalence and serendipity; his definition and analysis of anomie) draw attention on several kinds of indeterminacy: that of intents in causing consequences; that of social conditions on behaviour; that of real world to scientific theory. In the last part of the paper I argue that the non-determinism of the thought of Merton has relevant implications at a meta-theoretical level, directing him to the construction / definition of concepts rather than of general theories about society. |
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In the paper I claim that the philosophical and scientific idea of indeterminacy is a leading – and not always explicit – theme of the thought of Merton. Some of the main contributions of Merton to sociology (his reflections on the concepts of unintended consequences of purposive social action, self-fulfilling prophecy, latent function, sociological ambivalence and serendipity; his definition and analysis of anomie) draw attention on several kinds of indeterminacy: that of intents in causing consequences; that of social conditions on behaviour; that of real world to scientific theory. In the last part of the paper I argue that the non-determinism of the thought of Merton has relevant implications at a meta-theoretical level, directing him to the construction / definition of concepts rather than of general theories about society. |
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