Emergence in Sociology: Contemporary Philosophy of Mind and Some Implications for Sociological Theory  

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Sawyer, R. Keith

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: AJS: American Journal of Sociology vol. 107 no. 03 (Nov. 2001), page 551-585.
Topik: sociology; emergence; philosophy
Fulltext: A13 vol. 107 no. 03 (Nov. 2001) p551.PDF (206.25KB)

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Many accounts of the micro-macro link use the philosophical notion of emergence to argue that collective phenomena are collaboratively created by individuals yet are not reducible to explanation in terms of individuals. However, emergence has also been invoked by methodological individualists; they accept the existence of emergent social properties yet claim that such properties can be reduced to explanations in terms of individuals and their relationships. Thus, contemporary sociological uses of emergence are contradictory and unstable. This article clarifies this situation by developing an account of emergence based in contemporary philosophy of mind. The philosophical account is used to evaluate contradictory sociological theories. Several unresolved issues facing theories of emergence in sociology are identified.

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