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Rules, Norms, and Commitment

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Authors: Peter, Fabienne and Spiekermann, Kai

Published in: Handbook of Philosophy of Social Sciences

Year: 2011

Citation: Peter, Fabienne and Spiekermann, Kai (2011) "Rules, Norms, and Commitment", in Handbook of Philosophy of Social Sciences, pp. 216–232.

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This handbook provides a wide-ranging and authoritative overview of the main philosophical currents and traditions at work in the social sciences today. It explores fundamental issues like ontology, epistemology, methodology, and key concepts such as paradigm, empiricism, agency, power, and causality. The chapter on Rules, Norms, and Commitment examines what is the relationship between the social sciences and the natural sciences and where today’s dominant approaches to doing social science come from.