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Sociology as social physics. Myth or reality?

Magdalena Szpunar 

University of Information Technology and Management (WSIIZ), Sucharskiego, Rzeszów 35-225, Poland

Abstract

In present article the author attempts to answer the question whether sociology is - according to the concept of the father of sociology, A. Comte - able to bring a solution to many practical issues and help in creating a proper social order. Is it justified to call sociology social physics, drawing on research methods taken from natural sciences and studying exclusively facts? Or rather should one accept an idea of humanistic sociology, according to which world is being constantly created in a process of interaction between subjects endowed with consciousness? Can these concepts be unified, or rather they are entirely dichotomous, mutually excluding positions? Where should sociology draw on tools and methods applied in natural sciences, and where should such borrowing not be permitted?

 

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Presentation: Oral at 2 Ogólnopolskie Sympozjum "Fizyka w Ekonomii i Naukach Społecznych", Sociophysics, by Magdalena Szpunar
See On-line Journal of 2 Ogólnopolskie Sympozjum "Fizyka w Ekonomii i Naukach Społecznych"

Submitted: 2006-02-24 11:45
Revised:   2009-06-07 00:44