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An evolutionary approach to emergence and social causation

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dc.contributor.authorMartins, Nuno
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dc.description.abstractRom Harré criticizes critical realism for ascribing causal powers to social structures, arguing that it is human individuals, and not social structures, that possess causal powers, and that a false conception of structural causation undermines the emancipatory potential of critical realism. I argue that an interpretation of the category of process as the spatio-temporalization of the category of structure, which underpins much evolutionary theory, provides the conceptual tools to explain how the critical realist transformational model of social activity can escape from Harré's criticism, leading to a general conception of social development within which various types of evolutionary processes can be identified as particular cases. I then argue that Tony Lawson's PVRS model provides an evolutionary perspective that enables the conceptualization of coercive power as selective pressure.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationMARTINS, Nuno Miguel Ornelas - An Evolutionary Approach to Emergence and Social Causation. Journal of Critical Realism. ISSN 1572-5138. Vol. 10, nº 2 (2011), p. 192-218pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1558/jcr.v10i2.192
dc.identifier.issn1572-5138
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/20297
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.subjectCausationpt_PT
dc.subjectEvolutionpt_PT
dc.subjectPowerpt_PT
dc.subjectProcesspt_PT
dc.subjectPVRS Modelpt_PT
dc.subjectStructurept_PT
dc.titleAn evolutionary approach to emergence and social causationpt_PT
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oaire.citation.titleJournal of Critical Realism
oaire.citation.volume10
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