Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms

ISBN: 9780521154352 出版年：2011 页码：332 Demeulenaere Cambridge University Press

Introduction Pierre Demeulenaere Part I. Action and Mechanisms: 1. Ordinary rationality: the core of analytical sociology Raymond Boudon 2. Indeterminacy of emotional mechanisms Jon Elster 3. A naturalistic ontology for mechanistic explanations in the social sciences Dan Sperber 4. Conversation as mechanism: emergence in creative groups Keith Sawyer Part II. Mechanisms and Causality: 5. Generative process model building Thomas J. Fararo 6. Singular mechanisms and Bayesian narratives Peter Abell 7. The logic of mechanismic explanations in the social sciences Michael Schmid 8. Social mechanisms and explanatory relevance Petri Ylikoski 9. Causal regularities, action and explanation Pierre Demeulenaere Part III. Approaches to Mechanisms: 10. Youth unemployment: a self-reinforcing process? Yvonne Aberg and Peter Hedstrom 11. Neighborhood effects, causal mechanisms, and the social structure of the city Robert J. Sampson 12. Social mechanisms and generative explanations: computational models with double agents Michael W. Macy with Damon Centola, Andreas Flache, Arnout van de Rijt and Robb Willer 13. Relative deprivation in silico: agent-based models and causality in analytical sociology Gianluca Manzo.