Unintended wrong. For a reformulation of the concept of «perverse effects»

Abstract

This paper aims at both a limiting and at the same time broadening of the «perverse effects» concept (Raymond Boudon). A limiting, since the factors encompassed by this notion are reduced to a more specific group of social facts. Thus, they are seen as a particular kind of unintended consequences of social action. At the same time its a broadening, as it tries to recuperate the «perverse effects» concept but outside of agency and «rational» interaction model.