Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social TheoryPeter Hedström, Richard Swedberg Cambridge University Press, 13.01.1998 - 340 Seiten The advancement of social theory requires an analytical approach that systematically seeks to explicate the social mechanisms that generate and explain observed associations between events. These essays, written by prominent social scientists, advance criticisms of current trends in social theory and suggest alternative approaches. The mechanism approach calls attention to an intermediary level of analysis in between pure description and story-telling, on the one hand, and grand theorizing and universal social laws, on the other. For social theory to be of use for the working social scientist, it must attain a high level of precision and provide a toolbox from which middle range theories can be constructed. |
Inhalt
Social mechanisms An introductory essay | 1 |
Social mechanisms and social dynamics | 32 |
A plea for mechanisms | 45 |
Real virtuality | 74 |
Concatenations of mechanisms | 102 |
Do economists use social mechanisms to explain? | 125 |
Social mechanisms of dissonance reduction | 147 |
8 Social mechanisms without black boxes | 172 |
9 Is sociological theory too grand for social mechanisms? | 204 |
10 Theoretical mechanisms and the empirical study of social processes | 238 |
Corporations universities and nation states in competitive fields | 267 |
12 Rational imitation | 306 |
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