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Rationalité, relativisme, évolution sociale: une analyse critique du modèle cognitiviste de Boudon-Weber
[Rationality, relativisme, social evolution. A critical analysis of Boudon-Weber's cognitive model]

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This essay mainly concerns the foundation of a method of inquiry appropriate to the study of social reality. It starts from a criticism of Boudon-Weber's cognitivist method, the lacks of which seem particularly qualified for underlining the methodologic difficulties afflicting social thought. These lacks helps us to point out the reason and potentialities of our proposal on method that may be denominated 'social objectivism'. This proposal suggests additional objections both to Weber's cultural relativism and Boudon's anti-relativism, as well as to the notion of rationality and the theory of social evolution developed by those authors. A different notion of rationality is proposed and an alternative explanation of social process, referable both to the evolution and organization of human societies, is sketched out that may also be extended to the interpretation of historical processes.

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  • Fusari, Angtelo, 2007. "Rationalité, relativisme, évolution sociale: une analyse critique du modèle cognitiviste de Boudon-Weber [Rationality, relativisme, social evolution. A critical analysis of Boudon-Weber's cognitive," MPRA Paper 24131, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    1. Angelo Fusari, 2004. "A reconsideration on the method of economic and social sciences: Procedure, rules, classifications," International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 31(5/6), pages 501-535, May.
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    1. Fusari, Angelo, 2009. "Boudon's Contribution to the Objectivity of Ethics," MPRA Paper 74031, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2009.

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    Keywords

    Method of social thought; relativism; economic and social evolution; cognitive approach;
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    JEL classification:

    • B40 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - General
    • B52 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Modern Monetary Theory;
    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • B4 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology
    • H89 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - Other
    • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
    • B5 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches

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