The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-958745-2
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 796 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1346 g

Analytical sociology is a strategy for understanding the social world. It is concerned with explaining important social facts such as network structures, patterns of residential segregation, typical beliefs, cultural tastes, and common ways of acting. It explains such facts by detailing in clear and precise ways the mechanisms through which the social facts were brought about. Making sense of the relationship between micro and macro thus is one of the central concerns of analytical sociology. The approach is a contemporary incarnation of Robert K. Merton's notion of middle-range theory and presents a vision of sociological theory as a tool-box of semi-general theories each of which is adequate for explaining certain types of phenomena. The Handbook brings together some of the most prominent sociologists in the world. Some of the chapters focus on action and interaction as the cogs and wheels of social processes, while others consider the dynamic social processes that these actions and interactions bring about.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hedström, Peter

Bearman, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Foundations

- 1: Peter Hedström and Peter Bearman: What is analytical sociology all about? An introductory essay by Peter Hedström

- 2: Peter Hedström and Lars Udéhn: Analytical sociology and theories of the middle range

- Social Cogs and Wheels

- 3: Jon Elster: Emotions

- 4: Jens Rydgren: Beliefs

- 5: Jeremy Freese: Preferences

- 6: Trond Petersen: Opportunities

- 7: Dan Goldstein: Heuristics

- 8: Diego Gambetta: Signaling

- 9: Jon Elster: Norms

- 10: Karen Cook and Alexandra Gerbasi: Trust

- Social Dynamics

- 11: Michael Macy and Andreas Flache: Social dynamics from the bottom up: Agent-based models of social interaction

- 12: Elizabeth Bruch and Robert Mare: Segregation dynamics

- 13: Michael Biggs: Self fulfilling processes

- 14: Matthew Salganik and Duncan Watts: Social influence: The puzzling nature of success in cultural markets

- 15: Yvonne Åberg: The Contagiousness of Divorce

- 16: Katherine Stovel and Christine Fountain: Matching

- 17: Delia Baldassarri: Collective action

- 18: Meredith Rolfe: Conditional choice

- 19: James Moody: Network dynamics

- 20: Duncan Watts and Peter Dodds: Threshold models of social influence

- 21: Christopher Winship: Time and scheduling

- 22: Scott Feld and Bernard Grofman: Homophily and the focused organization of ties

- 23: Joel Podolny and Freda Lynn: Status

- 24: Ivan Chase and W. Brent Lindquist: Dominance hierarchies

- 25: Stathis Kalyvas: Conflict

- Perspectives from other fields and approaches

- 26: Richard Breen: Game theory

- 27: Iris Bohnet: Experiments

- 28: Hannah Brueckner: Surveys

- 29: Diane Vaughan: Analytical ethnography

- 30: Karen Barkey: Historical sociology

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Hedström is a Professor of Sociology, Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Singapore Management University, and Official Fellow of Nuffield College at Oxford University. His area of specialization is analytical sociology. He has a special interest in the analysis of complex social networks, particularly analyses seeking to explain how the structure of the networks in which individuals are embedded influence the collective outcomes the individuals bring about.

Peter Bearman is Director of the Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, the Cole Professor of Social Science, and Co-Director of the Health & Society Scholars Program. A recipient of the NIH Director's Pioneer Award in 2007, Bearman is currently investigating the social determinants of the autism epidemic. Current projects also include an ethnographic study of the funeral industry and, with support from the American Legacy Foundation, an investigation of the social and economic consequences of tobacco control policy.