Original scientific paper
Empirical realities and social and economic theorizing: some starting assumptions for research
Arthur J. Vidich
; Professor Emeritus New School for Social Reseach
Abstract
The paper analyzes the development of social science perspectives in the twentieth century. It focuses on the relationship between empirical reality and social and economic theory. After discussing the inadequacy of the current sociological enterprise, the author proposes a set of theoretical assumptions for a new explanatory model of political, economic and social realities.
Keywords
social theory; economic theory; rational choice; irrationality; sociology and economics
Hrčak ID:
154550
URI
Publication date:
30.6.1996.
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