The Logical Foundations of Social Theory

Joseph R. Pearce; Gert H. Mueller

doi:10.5771/9780761864394

Summary

The Logical Foundations of Social Theory describes Gert Mueller’s argument that physical, biological, social, moral, and cultural reality form an asymmetrical hierarchy of founding and controlling relationships that condition social reality rather than mechanically determining it. This book analyzes social stratification as labor, wealth and power, the moral order as solidarity, ideology and morality, and culture systems as art, science, and religion.

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Copyright year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-6438-7
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-6439-4
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 234
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Preface No access
4. Introduction No access
1. 1. The Axes and Types of Sociological Theory No access
2. 2. Theory: Pure and Applied No access
3. 3. The Dual Structure of Science No access
4. 4. Two Types of A Priori: Contingent and Transcendental No access
1. 5. Truth Functions and Mapping Functions No access
2. 6. The First Quadrant: Contiguity and Commutativity No access
3. 7. The Second Quadrant: Material Implication No access
4. 8. The Third Quadrant: Intension and Extension No access
5. 9. The Fourth Quadrant: Quantification and Modality No access
6. 10. The General Structure of Logic No access
1. 11. The Epistemological Reformulation of Logic No access
2. 12. Disjunction and Conjunction, Identity and Opposition No access
3. 13. The Logical Analysis of Society No access
4. 14. The Logical Analysis of Ethics No access
5. 15. Basis and Superstructure No access
6. 16. Religion and Morality No access
7. 17. The Architectonic of Society No access
8. 18. The Architectonic of the Mind No access
9. 19. Equations, Concordances, and Emendations No access
1. 20. Social Consciousness and Society No access
2. 21. The Analytics of Action: Means and Ends No access
3. 22. The Analytics of Belief: Values and Commitments No access
4. 23. The Analytics of Thought: Symbols and Meanings No access
5. 24. Causes, Purposes, and Functions No access
1. 25. Trinomial Foundational Relationships No access
2. 26. A Trinomial Analysis of Social Stratification No access
3. 27. A Trinomial Analysis of the Mind No access
4. 28. A Trinomial Analysis of the Intellect No access
5. 29. The Idealistic and the Materialistic Interpretation of Society No access
6. 30. The Dialectic of Social Being and Social Consciousness No access
1. 31. A Modal Analysis of Change: Optimum, Lag, Crisis, and Constraint No access
2. 32. The Vicissitudes of Ecology: Plenty vs. Dearth No access
3. 33. The Vicissitudes of Political Economy No access
4. 34. The Dynamics of the Mind: Reason and Revolution No access
5. 35. The Intellect: Universalism vs. Particularism No access
6. 36. Macroanalysis: The Mind and Society No access
1. Sociological Theory No access
2. Logic and Philosophy of Science No access
3. Philosophy No access
Index No access Pages 233 - 234