Social Causation and Biographical Research

1. Introduction: Singular causation and biographical research 2. Philosophical arguments on social causality: Cases of reductionism 3. Critical realism: Causal mechanisms as emergent powers 4. Causal explanation as process tracing 5. Relating cases with phenomena: Arguments for generalizing through mechanisms 6. The relational subject and latent meaning structures 7. Why the temporal is causal 8. Case reconstruction and relational mechanisms in biographical research practice 9. Epilogue: Summarizing the argumentation

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• Teoria social
• Sociologia
• Métodos de pesquisa: geral
• Filosofia

Biographical Research;LMS;Vice Versa;reconstructive biographical research;Hold;critical realism;Experienced Life History;causal explanations;CR;relational mechanisms;Multiple Realizability Argument;emergence;Narrated Life Story;methodology;Follow;research methods;Biographical Constructions;latent meaning structures;People's Biographies;examples;Biographical Experiences;sociology;Biographical Researchers;social science;Ontological Individualism;Social causation;Low Level Properties;Causal Power;Hume's Constant Conjunctions;Causal Thinking;Higher Level Properties;Emergent Social Properties;Typological Theorizing;Stratified Social Ontology;Non-reductive Individualism;Set Theoretic Terms