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POSTMODERNISM AND CHAOS
Rade Kalanj
; Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb
Sažetak
Starting from the conclusion that post–modern view and the theory of deterministic chaos represent two significant cultural and scientific facts, the author tries to answer the questions if their phenomenal coincidence has some deeper meaning and what does it mean for sociology. Therefore, basic notions have been defined in the beginning, while especially emphasizing that the post–modern view resulted from cultural pre–suppositions and the theory of chaos from scientific ones. Then, their relation toward “classic science” has been analyzed, and the fact that it is justifiable to speak about “sociology of postmodernism” and not about “post–modern sociology” has been established. Along with this, basic points of reference, at which “epistemological cut” proclaimed by the theory of chaos becomes prominent, have been established also: linearity, predictability and complexity. The text presents the meaning of these notions and the author represents the opinion that that they underwent through significant changes in classic and modern sociology as well. Sociology is essentially preoccupied with the relation of order and disorder, so it could be said that the theory of chaos, regardless of its ambitious scientific implications, can not paradigmatically influence orientations of sociology. As the post–modern cultural ambience did not deconstruct the scientific quality of sociological view, so the theory of chaos, in spite of its impetus, did not discover anything because of which the sociological science should change its subject and methodological horizon.
Ključne riječi
complexity; determinism; disorder; linearity; order; positivism; predictability; strict science
Hrčak ID:
141671
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.1.1999.
Posjeta: 1.458 *