Logic and Dialectics in Social Science, Part I

Dialectics, Social Phenomena and Non-Equilibrium

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2369736
AutoresGuglielmo Carchedi (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands,, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen34
Número4
Páginas495-523
Fecha de publicación2008-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0896920508090306
OpenAlexW2137031172
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas15

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