The Sociology of the Open Society

This chapter summarizes the major findings of the second volume, arguing that how the general theory of critical rationalism has contributed to the formation of a new micro-foundation, on the basis of which not only can we develop new sociologies of the closed and open societies, but also we would be able to offer “a normative sociological analysis” of the transition from the closed to the open society. To this end, it first argues how a reinvention of critical rationalism for the sociology of the open society has been taking place in this volume. And, then, it will argue that how this reinvention has been used to define “a model of human action” upon which the mechanisms of the transition from the closed to the open society could be explained. The chapter concludes that the second volume might be considered as the first systematic attempt to use the philosophy of the critical rationalism in order to present “a new sociology” of the open society.

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