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    Social Mechanisms and Social Causation

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    Publication date
    2014
    Author
    Weinert, Friedel
    Keyword
    Ideal types; Mechanisms (evolutionary, physical, social); Natural selection; Rainbows; Regularities; Slave trade; Social causation; Trends; Weber
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    © 2014 The Author. Published open access by Rosetti International. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
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    Abstract
    The aim of this paper is to examine the notion of social mechanisms by comparison with the notions of evolutionary and physical mechanisms. It is argued that social mechanisms are based on trends, and not lawlike regularities, so that social mechanisms are different from mechanisms in the natural sciences. Taking as an example of social causation the abolition of the slave trade, the paper argues that social mechanisms should be incorporated in Weber’s wider notion of adequate causation in order to achieve their explanatory purpose.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10454/10687
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    Citation
    Weinert F (2014) Social Mechanisms and Social Causation. Journal of Philosophical Economics. VIII (1): 24p.
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    http://www.jpe.ro/?id=autor&p=2196
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