Why the Social Sciences are Irreducible

Why the Social Sciences are Irreducible
Tobias Hansson Wahlberg, 2018/03/19
This is a very common position in the social sciences (including education): "“We can hold that any particular social entity at a given time and its causal powers are token identical with the sum of individuals composing it.” Or "it might well be true that each instance of a social kind - for example, a state structure - is identical with an ensemble of individual actors having certain properties." This paper examines, in detail, some of the arguments for and against this position. More...