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The Economic Approach to Sociology |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS |
| Author: James S. Coleman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2005 |
| Size: 5,648 Words, 35,964 Characters |
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Sociology is a discipline that addresses two kinds of problems: One is the explanation of how the social environment affects the actions of individuals. The second is the explanation of the functioning of social systems, including both large and small systems, and including both rigidly structured forms of social organization and loosely coupled systems.
The economic approach to sociology is a particular modeof addressing these two classes of problems. It is defined by three elements:
1. Whether the phenomenon to be explained is individual action or the behavior of a social system, the explanation involves the action of individual actors. Thus, this approach is a form of methodological individualism.
2. The individual actors are endowed with resources and interests. Interests are ...
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...nces." Ph.D. dissertation. The University of Chicago.
Taubman, P. 1977. Kinometrics: Sources of Sodoeconomic Success Within and Between Families. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
© 1992 International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences. This article was first presented as a paper in the book Universal Economics: Asessing the Achievements of the Economic Approach, edited by Gerard Radnitzky.
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