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Towards Social Machines. What will Sociology be Like?

Author(s): Kazimierz Krzysztofek
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: social machines; hard science; actor; network; hermeneutics

Summary/Abstract: This paper refers to the study by Ł. Afeltowicz and K. Pietrowicz published in „Studia Socjologiczne” (3/190: 43–79). The issues touched upon by its Authors have gained substantial significance nowadays, which is the reason to consider it worthwhile to refer to them. The author critically takes up the question whether sociologists should design artificial social experiments and implant them into the existing social reality. The possibile results include reproducing in artificial conditions certain natural social phenomena and/or introducing certain others which do not exist in the social reality in question.

  • Issue Year: 201/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 123-145
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Polish