Logic on the Track of Social Change

by Braybrooke, David; Brown, Bryson; Schotch, Peter K.; Byrne, Laura

• ISBN13: 9780198235309
• ISBN10: 0198235305
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-02-22
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

The book sets out a new logic of rules, developed to demonstrate how such a logic can contribute to the clarification of historical questions about social rules. The authors illustrate applications of this new logic in their extensive treatments of a variety of accounts of social changes, analyzing in these examples the content of particular social rules and the course of changes in them.

Table of Contents

Introduction

What Rules Amount to in Practice: A Theory with a Definition

Logical Preliminaries to a Formal Theory of Rules

The Logic of Rules

Who Controls the Marriage Decision? Stone and Macfarland: Opposed Accounts

Marx and Macfarlane: On Peasant and Capitalist Ownership in England

Justice in the Marxist Dialectic of Rules

A Rules-Analysis, Following Foucault, of the Birth of Clinical Medicine

The Opposition, Intended or Real, of the US Constitution to Factions or Political Parties

The Abolition of the British Slave Trade

Logic and its Application to Social Change: Our Work in Retrospect and Prospect

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