THE METHODENSTREIT AND THE PROBLEM OF SPECIFICITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES THE SEVENTH PAPER. SOCIAL SPECIES, GOVERNING REGULARITIES, AND THE CONDITIONS FOR RETURN OF NOMOTHETICS
The article discusses the problem of the existence of «social species» and «governing regularities» in the socio-historical reality. The methodological position of moderate epistemological conservatism is formulated. Preliminary answers to initial questions of Methodenstreit are given. The prospects of development of social and historical sciences are outlined. The conditions are considered for new upsurge of nomothetics in this field, i. e. theoretical thinking aimed at the discovery of common causes, regularities, and mechanisms of social and historical dynamics.