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Maybe we are many small steps away from the point where democratically elected politicians could write and enforce libertarian laws, possibly because that can only come when these underlying macrosociological phenomena are in the right place.
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I don't see policies -- *enforced* policies -- as being objects of choice; they are outcomes of complicated macrosociological phenomena.
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And we don't understand those macrosociological phenomena very well.
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I imagine that when he writes on politics he is simply incorporating his uncertainty about these macrosociological phenomena into his worldview.
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It seems like a stretch to me to suggest that the unknown macrosociological mechanisms which created our current society are the same as the ones which have created property rights.
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Moreover, this reduction of prestige of the market gives rise to macrosociological legislation directed toward two opposing mechanisms: equality of economic resources and enforcement of private property.
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Starting with Marx's historical materialism, large-scale macrosociological and historical theories have long been held to be the most appropriate explanatory basis for critical social science.
Jürgen Habermas Bohman, James 2007
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As his later and more fully developed normative theory of democracy based on macrosociological social facts about modern societies shows, Habermas offers a modest and liberal democratic ideal based on the public use of reason within the empirical constraints of modern complexity and differentiation.
Critical Theory Bohman, James 2005
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I contend that charisma from a macrosociological standpoint has entered a state of severe questionability.
Charisma and History: The Case of Münster, Westphalia, 1534-1535. Tal Howard Tal Howard 1993
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This is true in both a macrosociological and mircosociological context: the problematic nature of charisma seen in a purely theoretical context also appears when it is applied to specific historical settings.
Charisma and History: The Case of Münster, Westphalia, 1534-1535. Tal Howard Tal Howard 1993
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