Pregledni rad

THE SCIENCE OF SOCIETY AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Nikola Skledar ; Institute for Applied Social Research, Zagreb

Sažetak

Social science as the most general of social (and humanistic)
sciences, as the science of global society seen as a concretelyhistorical
whole, together with social philosophy and phylosophy
of history, by definition refers to social dynamics as well as to
social structure, due to the fact that human society is in essence
historical, Le. subject to changes in time. In its approach to social
change social science should primarily detect and distinguish
changes, discover laws or at least regularities of their occurence,
the causes and consequences of social change, and based on
that, with all due methodological caution, predict possible
tendencies of changes occuring in the future. To put it briefly, social
science should offer and plead for rational (scientific) explanation
of social change as a basis for providing change which will
be rational and humane in character and of a socially beneficial
orientation.

Ključne riječi

Hrčak ID:

32428

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/32428

Datum izdavanja:

1.3.1995.

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