Analytical sociology and social mechanisms /
Analytical sociology and social mechanisms /
Analytical Sociology & Social Mechanisms
edited by Pierre Demeulenaere.
- 1 online resource (ix, 320 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Introduction / Action and Mechanisms: Ordinary rationality: the core of analytical sociology / Indeterminacy of emotional mechanisms / A naturalistic ontology for mechanistic explanations in the social sciences / Conversation as mechanism: emergence in creative groups / Mechanisms and Causality: Generative process model building / Singular mechanisms and Bayesian narratives / The logic of mechanismic explanations in the social sciences / Social mechanisms and explanatory relevance / Causal regularities, action and explanation/ Approaches to Mechanisms: Youth unemployment: a self-reinforcing process? / Neighborhood effects, causal mechanisms, and the social structure of the city / Social mechanisms and generative explanations : computational models with double agents / Relative deprivation in Silico: agent-based models and causality in analytical sociology / Pierre Demeulenaere -- Raymond Boudon; Jon Elster; Dan Sperber; R. Keith Sawyer -- Thomas J. Fararo; Peter Abell; Michael Schmid; Petri Ylikoski; Pierre Demeulenaere -- Yvonne Åberg and Peter Hedström; Robert J. Sampson; Michael W. Macy with Damon Centola, Andreas Flache, Arnout van de Rijt and Robb Willer; Gianluca Manzo. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. Part II. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Part III. 10. 11. 12. 13.
Mechanisms are very much a part of social life. For example, we can see that inequality has tended to increase over time, and that cities can become segregated. But how do such mechanisms work? Analytical sociology is an influential approach to sociology which holds that explanations of social phenomena should focus on the social mechanisms that bring them about. This book evaluates the major features of this approach, focusing on the significance of the notion of mechanism. Leading scholars seek to answer a number of questions in order to explore all the relevant dimensions of mechanism-based explanations in social sciences. How do social mechanisms link together individual actions and social environments? What is the role of multi-agent modelling in the conceptualization of mechanisms? Does the notion of mechanism solve the problem of relevance in social sciences explanations?
9780511921315 (ebook)
Sociology.
Sociology--Methodology.
Social systems.
HM585 / .A526 2011
301.01
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Introduction / Action and Mechanisms: Ordinary rationality: the core of analytical sociology / Indeterminacy of emotional mechanisms / A naturalistic ontology for mechanistic explanations in the social sciences / Conversation as mechanism: emergence in creative groups / Mechanisms and Causality: Generative process model building / Singular mechanisms and Bayesian narratives / The logic of mechanismic explanations in the social sciences / Social mechanisms and explanatory relevance / Causal regularities, action and explanation/ Approaches to Mechanisms: Youth unemployment: a self-reinforcing process? / Neighborhood effects, causal mechanisms, and the social structure of the city / Social mechanisms and generative explanations : computational models with double agents / Relative deprivation in Silico: agent-based models and causality in analytical sociology / Pierre Demeulenaere -- Raymond Boudon; Jon Elster; Dan Sperber; R. Keith Sawyer -- Thomas J. Fararo; Peter Abell; Michael Schmid; Petri Ylikoski; Pierre Demeulenaere -- Yvonne Åberg and Peter Hedström; Robert J. Sampson; Michael W. Macy with Damon Centola, Andreas Flache, Arnout van de Rijt and Robb Willer; Gianluca Manzo. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. Part II. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Part III. 10. 11. 12. 13.
Mechanisms are very much a part of social life. For example, we can see that inequality has tended to increase over time, and that cities can become segregated. But how do such mechanisms work? Analytical sociology is an influential approach to sociology which holds that explanations of social phenomena should focus on the social mechanisms that bring them about. This book evaluates the major features of this approach, focusing on the significance of the notion of mechanism. Leading scholars seek to answer a number of questions in order to explore all the relevant dimensions of mechanism-based explanations in social sciences. How do social mechanisms link together individual actions and social environments? What is the role of multi-agent modelling in the conceptualization of mechanisms? Does the notion of mechanism solve the problem of relevance in social sciences explanations?
9780511921315 (ebook)
Sociology.
Sociology--Methodology.
Social systems.
HM585 / .A526 2011
301.01
