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Can society learn from experience? Society as a subject

Author(s): Anna Giza
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie we współpracy z Wydawnictwem Naukowym Scholar
Keywords: Intentionality; subjectivity; agency, individual; emergentism; society; coordination, aggregation; collective; action; artefacts; culture

Summary/Abstract: The term “society” is usually used as the subject of various statements: “society tends to…”, “society does not trust politicians”, etc. Th eoretically, however, individualism prevails both ontologically (“society” is a complex of individual actions) and methodologically. However, there exists a theoretical stance that considers society as an intention-driven agent, a self-refl ective subject able to build the structures of self-knowledge. The paper discusses the consequences of adapting the “intentional stance” in the study of society.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 72-85
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish