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This question has been treated under varying sociological terminologies, including, providence, social forces, social paradoxes, heterogeneity of ends, immanent causality and the principle of emergency.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n\nDesign\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title>\nThis paper is concerned with \u201cadverse effects\u201d. The thematic contexts of \u201cunintended consequences of social action\u201d the authors wish to focus attention on are specific types of consequences which may merit the adjective \u201cadverse\u201d.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n\nFindings<\/jats:title>\nThe analysis of the intentions of our actions and their unwanted or foreseen consequences allows us to understand how societies work. Many historical facts are probably \u201cunintentional.\u201d But, most continuous or changing life forms must be interpreted as a mixture of intentional (social reproduction) and unintentional consequences (social change).<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n\nOriginality\/value<\/jats:title>\nThis paper focuses on four points of view: the object of sociology, the problems of order and social change, the methodological status of the discipline and the nature of social explanation, and mathematical theory. 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