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Social Mechanisms
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Author : Peter Hedström
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-01-13
Social Mechanisms written by Peter Hedström and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-13 with Social Science categories.
The advancement of social theory requires an analytical approach that systematically seeks to explicate the social mechanisms that generate and explain observed associations between events. These essays, written by prominent social scientists, advance criticisms of current trends in social theory and suggest alternative approaches. The mechanism approach calls attention to an intermediary level of analysis in between pure description and story-telling, on the one hand, and grand theorizing and universal social laws, on the other. For social theory to be of use for the working social scientist, it must attain a high level of precision and provide a toolbox from which middle range theories can be constructed.
Analytical Sociology And Social Mechanisms
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Author : Pierre Demeulenaere
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-24
Analytical Sociology And Social Mechanisms written by Pierre Demeulenaere and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-24 with Social Science categories.
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?
Social Mechanisms
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Author : Georg Karlsson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Social Mechanisms written by Georg Karlsson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Sociology categories.
Generative Mechanisms Transforming The Social Order
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Author : Margaret S. Archer
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-02-18
Generative Mechanisms Transforming The Social Order written by Margaret S. Archer and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-18 with Social Science categories.
This volume examines how generative mechanisms emerge in the social order and their consequences. It does so in the light of finding answers to the general question posed in this book series: Will Late Modernity be replaced by a social formation that could be called Morphogenic Society? This volume clarifies what a ‘generative mechanism’ is, to achieve a better understanding of their social origins, and to delineate in what way such mechanisms exert effects within a current social formation, either stabilizing it or leading to changes potentially replacing it . The book explores questions about conjuncture, convergence and countervailing effects of morphogenetic mechanisms in order to assess their impact. Simultaneously, it looks at how products of positive feedback intertwine with the results of (morphostatic) negative feedback. This process also requires clarification, especially about the conditions under which morphostasis prevails over morphogenesis and vice versa. It raises the issue as to whether their co-existence can be other than short-lived. The volume addresses whether or not there also is a process of ‘morpho-necrosis’, i.e. the ultimate demise of certain morphostatic mechanisms, such that they cannot ‘recover’. The book concludes that not only are generative mechanisms required to explain associations between variables involved in the replacement of Late Modernity by Morphogenic Society, but they are also robust enough to account for cases and times when such variables show no significant correlations.
Analytical Sociology And Social Mechanisms 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
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Author : Pierre Demeulenaere
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Analytical Sociology And Social Mechanisms 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 written by Pierre Demeulenaere and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Electronic books categories.
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?
Social Mechanisms
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Author : Peter Hedström
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
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Europe S New Scientific Elite
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Author : Barbara Hoenig
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-04-21
Europe S New Scientific Elite written by Barbara Hoenig and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-21 with Science categories.
Winner of the Harald Kaufmann Prize for Senior Researchers, 2018 This book examines the question of whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elite formation in the European Research Area. Based on a study of the European Research Council (ERC), the author investigates profound structural change in the social organization of science, as the ERC intervenes in public science systems that, until now, have largely been organized at the national level. Against the background of an emerging new science policy, Europe’s New Scientific Elite explores the social mechanisms that generate, reproduce and modify existing dynamics of stratification and oligarchization in science, shedding light on the strong normative impact of the ERC’s funding on problem-choice in science, the cultural legitimacy and future vision of science, and the building of new research councils of national, European and global scope. A comparative, theory-driven investigation of European research funding, this book will appeal to social scientists with interests in the sociology of knowledge.
Causal Mechanisms In The Global Development Of Social Policies
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Author : Johanna Kuhlmann
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022
Causal Mechanisms In The Global Development Of Social Policies written by Johanna Kuhlmann and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Economic development categories.
This open access edited volume introduces the concept of causal mechanisms to explore new ways of explaining the global dynamics of social policy, and shows that a mechanism-based approach provides several advantages over established approaches for studying social policy. The introductory chapter outlines the mechanism-based approach, which stands out by modularisation and a clear focus on actors. The mechanism-based approach then guides the twelve chapters on social policy developments in different Asian, African, European and Latin American countries. Based on these findings, the concluding chapter provides a structured compilation of causal mechanisms and outlines how a mechanism-based approach can further strengthen research on the global development of social policies, especially in a comparative perspective. The edited volume is highly relevant for social policy scholars from a variety of disciplines, as well as for scholars interested in strengthening explanation in the social sciences.
Mechanisms And The Contingency Of Social Causality
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Author : Alexei Anisin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2022-08-04
Mechanisms And The Contingency Of Social Causality written by Alexei Anisin and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Mechanisms are frequently brought up across the natural and social sciences as supplements to laws and empirical regularities. Recent decades have seen an explosion in mechanistic explanations in which philosophers of science, natural scientists, and social scientists have advocated, debated, and criticized the usage of mechanisms in their respective disciplines. As the intensity of these debates has increased, our understanding of the historical origin of mechanisms remains incomplete. Of the explanations that have been put forward, it has been argued that the roots of mechanisms are to be found in mechanical philosophy. This book demonstrates that an important set of factors have been overlooked in our understanding of the ontology of mechanisms. In shifting attention to a never-before-explored terrain in the etymological and semantic evolution of what arguably is the most commonly used scientific term, “the mechanism,” this text discovers that the origin of mechanisms is to be witnessed in ideas about social causality that arose within Ancient Greek tragedy and theater. It takes readers on a journey through socio-cultural settings and changes in Ancient Greece, early Christianity, the Roman Empire, and the Middle Ages, as well as the rise of science and modernity, and finishes in our current era of digital technology. As such, the book reveals how understandings of mechanisms have changed and evolved across time.
Linking Social And Ecological Systems
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Author : Fikret Berkes
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-04-13
Linking Social And Ecological Systems written by Fikret Berkes and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-13 with Business & Economics categories.
Investigates how management systems and their dynamics can improve stewardship of selected ecosystems.