The Nature of Social Laws

Klappentext This volume is a study of the development of the idea that human social behaviour is governed by laws comparable to the laws of natural science. Zusammenfassung This volume is a study of the development of the idea that human social behaviour is governed by laws comparable to the laws of natural science. The author sets out to provide a clear account of the arguments put forward from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries about the nature and possibility of social laws. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. From isolated generalisations to the 'circle of commerce'; 2. Political principles and unintended consequences; 3. Social explanation as applied psychology; 4. The causal laws of social progress; 5. The methods of social economy; 6. Vico's humanistic science of history; 7. Comte and the objective knowledge of social stages; 8. J. S. Mill: the structure of a social science; Conclusion; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Brown
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521338295
• ISBN: 978-0-521-33829-5
• Series: Cambridge Paperback Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories