A Fallibilist Social Methodology for Today's Institutional Problems

Download or read book A Fallibilist Social Methodology for Today's Institutional Problems written by John Wettersten and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies and explains far-ranging consequences for methodology as a consequence of the observation that all rationality is social, and highlights the need for methodological reforms in publications and interactions among colleagues and research programs. The idea that all rationality is social needs to be part and parcel of all social scientific theories, which means that their content must be changed. Sociology needs to study the impact of social rules, economics must revise assumptions about how individual rationality impacts financial developments, and cognitive psychology must include social dimensions. In addition, there is also a need for moral theories that explain how social standards of behavior can be improved in specific institutional contexts.