Abstract
Mathematical Sociology started as “the project of enlightenment” which aimed at the rationalization of sociology as science. It would draw a sharp line of demarcation between sciences and pseudosciences on the idea of logical rationalism (logical positivism) and claim that traditional sociological theories were for the most part pseudoscientific and the establishment of truely scientific theories in sociology was needed. But today, although mathematical sociology has rased its status in academic circles of social sciences, the situation of sociology has not changed as a general. This is because in the program of logical rationalism sociology itself is inevitably pseudoscientific and therefore sociologists cannot adopt the program as a method of theory-construction. The program discriminates sciences from pseudosciences on the universally valid meta-theoretical criterion such as verifiability (falsifiability), however, has already proved to be unacceptable. Rightly, mathematical sociology should be the project which tries to prove the utility of mathematical models in sociology not meta-theoretically but experientially. In this sense the project of mathematical sociology is not yet finished.
