This article critiques R. Keith Sawyer’s theory of social causation from his 2005 book Social Emergence. It considers his use of analogy with the philosophy of mind, his account of individual agency, the legacy of Emile Durkheim, the concepts of supervenience, multiple realization, and wild disjunction, and the role of history in social causation. Sawyer’s theory is also evaluated in terms of two examples of empirical research: his own micro-sociological studies into group creativity; and Margaret Archer’s macro-sociology of education systems.

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索耶的社会因果关系理论：一种批判

本文从R. Keith Sawyer的2005年著作《Social Emergence》中对社会因果关系理论进行了批评。它考虑了他对思维哲学的类比，他对个体代理的叙述，埃米尔·杜尔克海姆的遗产，超便利性，多重实现和疯狂脱节的概念，以及历史在社会因果关系中的作用。索耶的理论还通过两个实证研究的例子进行了评估：他对群体创造力的微观社会学研究；以及对群体创造力的微观社会学研究。以及玛格丽特·阿彻（Margaret Archer）的教育系统宏观社会学。