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- Title
The Problem of Order (Book).
- Authors
Roidt, Joseph M.
- Abstract
The article discusses the book "The Problem of Order," by Dennis H. Wrong. In the book the author has argued that the seminal questions of social theory were unlikely to be resolved through the efforts of cumulative empirical research. The purpose of "The Problem of Order" is to review comprehensively past discussions of the problem of order than to present a new, conceptually sharper statement of it. In the first section the author seeks to clarify the various aspects of the problem of order. He argues that treatments of the problem of order have tended to conflate aspects of the problem of order which should be kept analytically distinct. These aspects include: the cognitive and motivational aspects of order, the individual and the group as units and the roles of coercion, self-interest, and normative consensus in maintaining order. The bulk of the book is devoted to authors contention that sociological theory continues to suffer due to its unwillingness to wrestle with the question of human nature.
- Subjects
PROBLEM of Order, The (Book); WRONG, Dennis, 1923-2018; BOOK evaluations; ORDER; MOTIVATION (Psychology); SELF-interest
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1995, Vol 18, Issue 3, p385
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF02393349