Society as a theoretical object. Emergentism of social theory vs. reduction of Natural Science

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the difference of theoretical status of social and natural sciences. The following questions are posited and settled:

– which factor determines this foundational difference between these sci­ences;

– can the contemporary society as the referent of some social theories be a subject of observation in the same sense as the observable objects in natural sciences;

– the implication is made that the society is a constructed concept which gets its meaning exclusively in framework of model of emergentism.