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Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms.
Discusses the importance and development of analytical sociology, emphasizing the centrality of mechanisms in explaining social life.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Introduction; Analytical sociology and methodological individualism; From methodological individualism to analytical sociology; Mechanisms and causality; An overview of the book; References; Part I: Action and mechanisms; 1 Ordinary rationality: the core of analytical sociology; 2 Indeterminacy of emotional mechanisms; 3 A naturalistic ontology for mechanistic explanations in the social sciences; 4 Conversation as mechanism: emergence in creative groups; Part II: Mechanisms and causality.
- 5 Generative process model building6 Singular mechanisms and Bayesian narratives; 7 The logic of mechanistic explanations in the social sciences; 8 Social mechanisms and explanatory relevance; 9 Causal regularities, action and explanation; Part III: Approaches to mechanisms; 10 Youth unemployment: a self-reinforcing process?; 11 Neighborhood effects, causal mechanisms and the social structure of the city; 12 Social mechanisms and generative explanations: computational models with double agents; 13 Relative deprivation in silico: agent-based models and causality in analytical sociology; Index.