Logic and Dialectics in Social Science, Part I

This article develops a new dialectical method of social research. Contrary to the Hegelian tradition, it extracts this method from Marx's own work by taking a class-determined perspective of social phenomena. Contrary to formal logic it stresses social reality's dynamism by focusing on social phenomena's contradictory nature. It starts by setting out the three principles upon which dialectical logic rests. It then examines individual phenomena as potential social phenomena. On this basis, it identifies the building block of society, the relation that ensures the reproduction of society while accounting for the recurrent attempts at its supersession. Both reproduction and supersession require both an objective and a subjective element. The article examines them in the light of this new approach and argues that society's movement towards its own supersession is the tendential one

Dialectic · Dynamism · Economics · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Positive economics · Reproduction · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

• Social relations

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• The Assault on Workers' Rights

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• Logic and Dialectics in Social Science, Part II

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• On the Economic Identification of Social Classes

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• Historical Materialism

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• On the Production of Knowledge

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• Marx and Non-equilibrium Economics

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• Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

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• The Rules of Sociological Method

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• Methodology of Social Sciences

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• Assumptions of the Dialectical Method

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• Classical Sociological Theory and Modern Social Problems

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• Assumptions of the Dialectical Method

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• The logic of prices as values∗

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