ZNANOST O DRUŠTVU I DRUŠTVENE PROMJENE
THE SCIENCE OF SOCIETY AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Summary/Abstract: Social science as the most general of social (and humanistic) sciences, as the science of global society seen as a concretelyhistorical whole, together with social philosophy and phylosophy of history, by definition refers to social dynamics as well as to social structure, due to the fact that human society is in essence historical, Le. subject to changes in time. In its approach to social change social science should primarily detect and distinguish changes, discover laws or at least regularities of their occurence, the causes and consequences of social change, and based on that, with all due methodological caution, predict possible tendencies of changes occuring in the future. To put it briefly, social science should offer and plead for rational (scientific) explanation of social change as a basis for providing change which will be rational and humane in character and of a socially beneficial orientation.

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