Book Details
Orange Code:28053
Paperback:332 pages
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1. Ordinary rationality: the core of analytical sociology2. Indeterminacy of emotional mechanisms3. A naturalistic ontology for mechanistic explanations in the social sciences4. Conversation as mechanism: emergence in creative groups5. Generative process model building6. Singular mechanisms and Bayesian narratives7. The logic of mechanistic explanations in the social sciences8. Social mechanisms and explanatory relevance9. Causal regularities, action and explanation10. Youth unemployment: a self-reinforcing process?11. Neighborhood effects, causal mechanisms and the social structure of the city12. Relative deprivation in silico: agent-based models and causality in analytical sociology
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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?
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