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Theory On The Origin of Society
Theory On The Origin of Society
This fundamental fact of the binarity of choosing would lead directly to the
consideration of the impossibility of social construction, given that the world of
individual possibilities manifests itself contingently. The social would explode into
an infinite bundle of possibilities in which no one could agree.
Western tradition tried to solve the problem through a kind of coercion. The
humanistic and ethical tradition was imposed from which the social was treated as
a normative theory of correct and prudent choices. Faced with the constitutive
binarity of choice, morality privileges only one side of the poles: the positive.
Sociology, until Parsons, was stuck with respect to the problem of the double
contingency of choosing, since it tried to solve it in terms of the relationship
between human beings.
Durkheim postulated the mechanism of moral solidarity at the basis of the social
constitution; Weber sees the future of the modern world as an increase in
rationalization according to the end/means scheme, and social action is only
conceivable provided with meaning as long as it is reconstructed in terms of said
rationality.
The basic situation of the double contingency is, then, simple: two black boxes,
due to who knows what chance, enter into a relationship with each other; each
determines its own behavior through complex self-referential operations within its
own limits.
They may try to influence what they observe by their own action; and again learn
from feedback. In this way, an emergent order can be generated conditioned by
the complexity of the systems that make it possible, which does not depend on
whether this complexity can also be calculated and controlled.
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