Naslov
Individual Rationality, Social Norms and Institutions ; naturalistic reexamination of the social ontology

Autori
Smokrović, Nenad

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, ostalo

Skup
Međunarodni okrugli stol "Second transition challenge to knowledge based society: what set of institutions creates incentives to innovation?"

Mjesto i datum
Opatija, Hrvatska, 01.10.2004

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Social institutions; norms; decision-making; rationality

Sažetak
The essay examines the nature and structure of the relationship between individuals (the individual’ s decision-making ability is considered to be a key feature helping us to understand the individual behaviour) and social institutions. This approach is theoretically and methodologically strongly determined by three desiderata: naturalism, methodological individualism, and causal (‘ mechanistic’ ) explanation of social phenomena. The naturalism I am advocating here aims at bridging gaps between the sciences (but not necessarily at universal reduction). In my proposal the gap to be bridged is between sociology, in the terms of which the observing phenomena are given, and cognitive psychology, in the terms of which the accounting for lower-level mechanisms and generalizations are to be done. Naturalistic explanation of social phenomena requires consideration of only those entities whose causal effects and powers can be understood in naturalistic terms. Causal explanation is mechanistic if complex causal relations are analysed in terms of more elementary ones, down to some level of description at which their natural character would be wholly unproblematic.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Ekonomija

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