Neither Foundationalism nor De-construction:

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  • 基礎づけ主義でも脱構築でもなく
  • 会長講演 基礎づけ主義でも脱構築でもなく--構想としての探求
  • カイチョウ コウエン キソヅケ シュギ デモ ダツコウチク デモ ナク コウソウ ト シテ ノ タンキュウ
  • ─構想としての探求─
  • A Constructivistic View of Social Inquiry

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     Since the decline of the two main doctrines, Marxism and Modernization theory, various new sociological paradigms have emerged. While most of them are oriented toward the de-construction of the modern knowledge, mathematical sociology is an exception in its firm connection with the modern project that we may develop a rational system of knowledge through mathematical reasoning. Then, we may ask ourselves, what has been achieved by mathematical sociology? In a sense, it should be unsatisfactory, because the foundationalistic project of establishing a mathematical modeling of sociological system has failed. The social world is not founded on some law-like mechanisms. De-constructionists may be right in their assertion that there is no basis on which the grand story of the society could be founded. However, this does not validate the de-constructionist view of social theory where “truth” has no meaning. Instead a constructivistic view of social inequity is presented in this paper that “truth” is, as any other “ideal-existences” which constitute a community, a constitutive conception in the scientific community, and that a social theory is an attempt of constituting “the truth” about how a social world is constituted.

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