Theories of Social Change : A Critical Appraisal / Raymond Boudon ; translated by J.C. Whitehouse.
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TextSeries: Social and political theoryPublication details: Cambridge : Polity, 1986.Description: vi, 253 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0745601197
- 0745609503 (pbk)
- Place du desordre. English
- HM101 .B687 1986
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translation of: La place du desordre, first published by Presses Universitaires de France, 1984.
Foreword 1. Theories of Social Change 2. Individual Action, Aggregation Effects and Social Change 3. The Laws Governing Change: the Nomological Bias 4. Structures and Change: the Structuralist Bias 5. The Search for the Prime Mover: the Ontological Bias 6. A Well-Tempered Determinism 7. Giving Disorder its Due.
Boudon argues that social life is in a fundamental sense marked by disorder. Not only are there no laws of social life, but patterns of social change continually diverge from the outcome which social actors attempt to achieve.
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