Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gianluca Manzo.
• Editors: Manzo, Gianluca
• Contents: Contents: Preface ix Does analytical sociology practice what it preaches? An assessment of analytical sociology through the Merton award 1 Gianluca Manzo PART 1 THEORETICAL CONVERSATIONS 1 Understanding the Coleman boat 49 Petri Ylikoski 2 Analytical sociology, analytic philosophy and analytical Marxism 64 Daniel Little 3 Analytical sociology and its lesser-known antecedents: structural individualism in European sociology 80 Werner Raub 4 Analytical sociology and complexity research 100 Michael Mäs 5 Analytical sociology and social stratification research 119 Carlo Barone 6 Analytical sociology and critical realism 135 Francesco Di Iorio and Francisco J. León-Medina 7 Analytical sociology and cultural sociology 155 Filippo Barbera 8 Analytical sociology and pragmatism 170 Matthew Norton PART 2 PIVOTAL CONCEPTS AND MECHANISMS 9 Action 186 Clemens Kroneberg and Andreas Tutic 10 Interactions 204 Michael Mäs 11 Structure 220 Emily Erikson and Eric Feltham 12 Norms 233 Pierre Demeulenaere 13 Coupled contexts 249 Filippo Barbera and Nicola Negri 14 Contingency and randomness: a modal approach 264 Ivan Ermakoff 15 Cumulative advantage 286 Freda B. Lynn and Hannah W. Espy 16 Network amplification 308 Filiz Garip and Mario D. Molina 17 Complex contagions 321 Damon Centola PART 3 PIVOTAL METHODS 18 Archival data 337 Katharina Burgdorf and Henning Hillmann 19 Digital data and methods 352 Viktoria Spaiser 20 Advances in mediation analysis 364 Kinga Makovi and Christopher Winship 21 Experiments 392 Giuseppe A. Veltri 22 Game-theoretic models 414 Wojtek Przepiorka 23 Network mechanisms and network models 432 Christoph Stadtfeld and Viviana Amati 24 Agent-based computational models 453 Andreas Flache and Carlos A. de Matos Fernandes 25 The many model approach 474 Scott E. Page Coda—The past and future of analytical sociology 490 Peter Hedström Index 506.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (528 pages)
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Social Theory; Social theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Statistics; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Research; Sociology; Social research & statistics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789906851; 1789906857
• Related ISBNs: 9781789906844
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