The essay opens with a discussion of the different logical properties that characterize respectively the scientific laws and empirical generalizations. It is argued, then it is impossible for the social sciences and sociology in particular, to achieve scientific laws in the proper sense, and the exclusive availability of generalizations, more or less well founded, but always dependent on the changing nature of socio-cultural contexts, and therefore substantially related to historicity. On this basis, is then discussed the applicability of the model-nomological inferential sociological explanation. This model is not rejected, but rather "re-written" with the introduction of significant variations compared to the traditional version of Hempel and Oppenheim.
Il saggio si apre con la discussione delle diverse proprietà logiche che caratterizzano rispettivamente le leggi scientifiche e le generalizzazioni empiriche. Si argomenta poi l’impossibilità, per le scienze sociali ed in particolare per la sociologia, di pervenire a leggi scientifiche in senso proprio, e l’esclusiva disponibilità di generalizzazioni, più o meno fondate ma sempre dipendenti dalla mutevolezza dei contesti socio-culturali, e dunque sostanzialmente legate alla storicità. Su questa base viene infine discussa l’applicabilità del modello nomologico-inferenziale alla spiegazione sociologica. Tale modello non viene rifiutato, ma piuttosto “riscritto”, con l’introduzione di varianti significative rispetto alla tradizionale versione di Hempel e Oppenheim.
On some problems of sociological explanation / Campelli, Vincenzo. - STAMPA. - (2005), pp. 156-181.
On some problems of sociological explanation
CAMPELLI, Vincenzo
2005
Abstract
The essay opens with a discussion of the different logical properties that characterize respectively the scientific laws and empirical generalizations. It is argued, then it is impossible for the social sciences and sociology in particular, to achieve scientific laws in the proper sense, and the exclusive availability of generalizations, more or less well founded, but always dependent on the changing nature of socio-cultural contexts, and therefore substantially related to historicity. On this basis, is then discussed the applicability of the model-nomological inferential sociological explanation. This model is not rejected, but rather "re-written" with the introduction of significant variations compared to the traditional version of Hempel and Oppenheim.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.