Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology

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 Maes
5 Analytical sociology and social stratification research 119
Carlo Barone
6 Analytical sociology and critical realism 135
Francesco Di Iorio and Francisco J. Leon-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 Maes
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 Hedstroem

Index 506

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• Pesquisa e estatística social
• Sociologia
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Analytical sociology; social mechanisms; agent-based modelling; models of social networks and mechanisms; explanatory sociology; micro-macro models; computational social sciences; network mechanisms