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If there is anything upon which theoretical sociologists might agree then it may be a definition of sociology in terms of social rules: The main task of sociology is the analysis of social rules. Individual actors interact according to specific (social) rules; actors, interactions and rules of interactions constitute social systems, which generate their special dynamics. According to this definition social processes are understood if and only if the rules could be reconstructed by which actors performed their actions. These actions yield specific consequences whether intended or not (Knorr-Cetina 1981); these consequences generate further actions with successive consequences and so on. Therefore the dynamics of social systems is nothing else than the consequences of social actions.
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Klüver, J., Schmidt, J., Kier, R. (2000). Ordering Parameters in the Rule Space of Social Systems. In: Suleiman, R., Troitzsch, K.G., Gilbert, N. (eds) Tools and Techniques for Social Science Simulation. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51744-0_18
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