Social Mechanisms
An Analytical Approach to Social Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20429923 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Peter Hedström (0000-0003-3536-8449), Richard Swedberg (0000-0003-0635-0581) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Social Mechanisms (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511663901 |
| OpenAlex | W2102035269 |
| ISBN | 9780511663901 |
| Open Library | OL34441453M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 470 |
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.
Cognitive science · Epistemology · Mechanism (biology) · middle-range theory · social explanation · social mechanisms · Social science · Social theory · Sociology · Toolbox · Computer Science · Critical Realism in Sociology · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Political Science Research and Education · Psychology · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research · Methodology · Social systems · Sociology - methodology
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Feelings of Discontent and the Promise of Middle Range Theory for STS
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What Counts as a Stronger Cause? Six Meanings of Causal Importance in the Social Sciences
Organizational Consolidation
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Standards in sociology
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Social structure and organizations revisited
Historical-Institutionalism in Political Science and the Problem of Change
Social Mechanisms and Their Feedbacks
Historical Analysis of Political Processes
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Reconstructing Change in Historical Systems
Metatheorizing in Sociology
Building Empirically Plausible Multi-Agent Systems
Strukturtheoretischer Individualismus
Rational Choice Theorie
Causal Mechanisms
Robert K. Merton
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Causal pluralism and mixed methods in the analysis of poverty dynamics
Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe
Clandestine Political Violence
Retooling Politics
A Socially Embedded Model of Thriving at Work
Pathways for Positive Identity Construction at Work
Income Inequality and Subjective Wellbeing
A Critical Review of Rural Poverty Literature
Social Networks Matter. But How?
Capturing Causal Complexity
Social Movements and Prefigurative Organizing
Cross‐Talk in Movements
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‘Leaders’ Or Brokers? Positions and Influence in Social Movement Networks
Strategies of Causal Assessment in Comparative Historical Analysis
Can One or a Few Cases Yield Theoretical Gains?
Constitutional Design
Uncertainty and Narratives of the Future
Organizations and Movements
Ethnographic Evidence, Heterogeneity, and Neighbourhood Effects After Moving to Opportunity
Beyond Structural Analysis
Where Do We Stand? Common Mechanisms in Organizations and Social Movements Research
Travelling models and the challenge of pragmatic contexts and practical norms
Illicit Network Dynamics
Complex Systems Research in Educational Psychology
Social Capital, Impartiality and the Welfare State
Social Entrepreneurship Research
Devolution and Decentralization
Modernization and Democratization
The Social-Democratic State
Social Movements and Organization Theory
Spaces between Fields
Democracy and Public Management Reform
Crafting Cooperation
Big, Slow-Moving, and … Invisible
Designed to fail or failure of design? The origins and legacy of the Arab League
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Unanticipated Gains
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Never waste a good crisis
Binary Role Theory and Modeling the Superpower Confrontation in Ukraine
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A multiplicative process for generating the rank-order distribution of UK election results
A Simple Generative Model of Collective Online Behaviour
Re-Imagining Social Science
Elaborating a Critical Realist Approach to Soft Systems Methodology
Mechanisms in the Analysis of Social Macro-Phenomena
Citizens’ initiatives for care and welfare in the Netherlands
Die analytische Soziologie
No fear of comparisons or context
Self-regulated Learning
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Tollgates of progress
Crisis‐Induced Adaptive Capacity
Theoretische Paradigmen und Mechanismen in der arbeitsmarktpolitischen Politikberatung
The theory of social games
Context as ontology and epistemic infrastructure
The 2017 French riots and trust in the police
Institutional pressures and firms’ environmental management behavior
Public administration, context and innovation
Two Ways of Seeing Post-Truth as a Stance
Rule bending by morally disengaged detectives
Marxism as a Prototype for Grand Theories of Society
The Catalogue of Mechanisms in Analytical Sociology
The Role of Nationalities in Dagestan
Managing contested spaces
Policy Spandrels
The ‘knight of faith’ and some Weberians
Class Power in Hard Times
Mechanisms in sociology—a critical intervention
Springs and their offspring
Overcoming Silencing Practices
| Citations per year | 16.79 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2026 (29) |
| Highly cited | Yes |