Formalism, Behavioral Realism and the Interdisciplinary Challenge in Sociological Theory
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the “social” from its embeddedness in biophysical reality. In comparison to the many attempts at formalist unification that have taken place in sociology since the middle of last century (e.g. Parsons, Luhmann, Coleman), behavioral realist pleas are both a relatively new entry into the disciplinary contest
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