False necessity, or anti-necessitarian social theory, is a contemporary social theory that argues for the plasticity of social organizations and their...

In logic and mathematics, necessity and sufficiency are terms used to describe a conditional or implicational relationship between two statements. For...

unpredictable events in place of deterministic necessity. Rational choice theory, symbolic interactionism, false necessity are examples of more recent developments...

of human life and society. Politics was published in three volumes: False Necessity: Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy...

is a key component in Unger's theory of false necessity and formative context. The theory of false necessity claims that social worlds are the artifact...

In psychology, a false memory is a phenomenon where someone recalls something that did not actually happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually...

concept is in Unger's book False Necessity. The thesis of formative context is central to Unger's theory of false necessity, which rejects the idea of...

A false equivalence or false equivalency is an informal fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed or false reasoning...

come to see the existing arrangements as necessary. Unger calls this false necessity. In reality, these arrangements are arbitrary and hold together rather...

address this problem of agency in relation to structure. In his work on false necessity – or anti-necessitarian social theory – Unger recognizes the constraints...