про человеческое общество

[S]ociety as such is a concept, an abstraction - What exists in reality are individuals in whose minds society exists as a factor determining certain types of behavior. If the mental attitude no longer exists, society does no longer exist either. If people were not aware of each other's existence, society would not exist, even if all the same people were still in existence … Thus, society is an attitude in the mind of the individual which is subject to X changes each second. It is unstable and undetermined, although it may appear constant and concrete on the surface during long periods, or made to appear this way by social theorists (p. 22).

'The individual has historical and logical priority in regard to the group; or quite simply, a group develops out of individuals because no group can exist otherwise while the individual can, at least theoretically' (p. 38).
Two methodological rules follow from this ontological thesis:
(1) 'Social science deals with processes of change which must be explained in terms of the
individual' (p. 38), and (2) 'Social science deals with those changes in the individual which occur in a plurality of individuals and which form, consequently, the basis for what is termed social patterns' (pp. 38f). According to Landheer, 'the individual is the basic unit of social science, although the changes in the individual may in turn be influenced by social processes' (p. 39).

цитаты приведены из: Landheer, B. (1952) Mind and Society. Epistemological Essays on Sociology, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.

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про человеческое общество

[S]ociety as such is a concept, an abstraction - What exists in reality are individuals in whose minds society exists as a factor determining certain types of behavior. If the mental attitude no longer exists, society does no longer exist either. If people were not aware of each other's existence, society would not exist, even if all the same people were still in existence … Thus, society is an attitude in the mind of the individual which is subject to X changes each second. It is unstable and undetermined, although it may appear constant and concrete on the surface during long periods, or made to appear this way by social theorists (p. 22).

'The individual has historical and logical priority in regard to the group; or quite simply, a group develops out of individuals because no group can exist otherwise while the individual can, at least theoretically' (p. 38).
Two methodological rules follow from this ontological thesis:
(1) 'Social science deals with processes of change which must be explained in terms of the
individual' (p. 38), and (2) 'Social science deals with those changes in the individual which occur in a plurality of individuals and which form, consequently, the basis for what is termed social patterns' (pp. 38f). According to Landheer, 'the individual is the basic unit of social science, although the changes in the individual may in turn be influenced by social processes' (p. 39).

цитаты приведены из: Landheer, B. (1952) Mind and Society. Epistemological Essays on Sociology, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.

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