Leonardo PARRI, Explanation in the Social Sciences. A Theoretical and Empirical Introduction

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26 novembre 2015

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Nicola Negri, « Leonardo PARRI, Explanation in the Social Sciences. A Theoretical and Empirical Introduction », Revue européenne des sciences sociales, ID : 10.4000/ress.3160

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The aim of Leonardo Parri’s book is “the revitalization” (p.10) of the concept of social law. However, his support of the indispensability of social laws in order to explain social facts doesn’t imply that the standard model should be that of the hard natural sciences (ch.6). One has instead to turn towards soft natural sciences, like geology, climatology, etc., which deal statistically with high complexity phenomena. Let me consider the author’s arguments. In the first three chapters, Parri ...

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