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Large-scale societal changes and intentionality – an uneasy marriage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2014

Péter Bodor  and
Nikos Fokas
Péter Bodor
Affiliation:
Department of Social Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), H-1117 Budapest, Hungary. peter.bodor@gmail.com
Nikos Fokas
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)fokasznikosz@gmail.com HAS-ELTE-Peripato Research Group, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary. http://peripato.tatk.elte.hu/
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Abstract

Our commentary focuses on juxtaposing the proposed science of intentional change with facts and concepts pertaining to the level of large populations or changes on a worldwide scale. Although we find a unified evolutionary theory promising, we think that long-term and large-scale, scientifically guided – that is, intentional – social change is not only impossible, but also undesirable.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , August 2014 , pp. 419 - 420
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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