Abstract

The matter of this paper is the problem of determinism in social sciences, from the general scientific pretense of achieving constant and univocal connections among events, states of things, as well as ideal objects. The historical obstacle that had placed social sciences in front of that pretense, it has been the fact of the individual freedom and the social contingency, through the paradoxical question: How can we determine relations between the phenomena of social life if they are contingent in fact?. At an epistemological and theoretical level there is not consensus on a solution to this problem, which has questioned permanently the scientific status of the social disciplines. Some ideas are explored in this respect