Explaining Social Behavior
More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6574118 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jon Elster (0000-0002-9543-1780) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 496 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Explaining Social Behavior (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511806421 |
| ISBN | 9780511806421 |
| Open Library | OL22756120M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 329 |
This book is an expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed volume Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. In twenty-six succinct chapters, Jon Elster provides an account of the nature of explanation in the social sciences. He offers an overview of key explanatory mechanisms in the social sciences, relying on hundreds of examples and drawing on a large variety of sources - psychology, behavioral economics, biology, political science, historical writings, philosophy and fiction. Written in accessible and jargon-free language, Elster aims at accuracy and clarity while eschewing formal models. In a provocative conclusion, Elster defends the centrality of qualitative social sciences in a two-front war against soft (literary) and hard (mathematical) forms of obscurantism.
General · Methodology · Social interaction · Social science · Social studies · Sociology · Social Sciences · Philosophy · Social Science · Social sciences · Social, group or collective psychology · Sociology, Social Studies
Theoretical Overview
Media representations of Chinese migrants in the Spanish press
On Trade Justice
Black Ships
The Optimal Design of a Constituent Assembly
Interview
Human Dignity and Human Rights
The Gender Perception Towards the Future during the Pandemic
Herodotus’ Perspective on the Persian Empire
Some Remarks on Effect Studies of Physician Dissatisfaction
Y aún más al fondo del bullshit
The Atrophy of the Professional Role among Teachers from Middletown in Poland. An Analysis of the Phenomenon and Its Determinants
Roditeljske srednjoškolske aspiracije za djecu iz perspektive učenika pri kraju osnovnog obrazovanja
El mito de la sociología como «ciencia multiparadigmática»
“Trust Me”
Número complet
Modeling Micro-Macro Relationships
Mechanism-Based Causal Analysis
Scientific Explanation
Race Relations, Critical Rationalist Perspective on
The Role of Social Mechanisms in the Formation of Social Inequalities
Binding Institutions
The Social Construction of Morality?
Sociohydrology
Approaches and terminology for causal analysis in land systems science
Assessing a farm's sustainability
Approche théorique de la gouvernance des organisation non lucratives
Conventions and Moral Norms
Justice, Feasibility, and Social Science as it is
Calculativeness and trust
Demands of Justice, Feasible Alternatives, and the Need for Causal Analysis
Using social norms theory for health promotion in low-income countries
Unanticipated Gains
Can We Predict Politics? Toward What End
A New Case for the Study of Individual Events in Political Science
Political Learning among Youth
What is analytical sociology? Towards sociology as 'normal science'
Interpretivism in Aiding Our Understanding of the Contemporary Social World
Why Nudges Matter
Anthropology's Contribution to Public Policy
Von Heterogenitäten zu Ungleichheiten
Trajectories of post-authoritarian transitions
Learning Through the Arts (Ltta) Approach to the Teaching of Performing Arts and Languages in the Digital Era
Engagement with AI in teacher education—discourses, processes of domestication and dynamics of transformation
The role of translanguaging pedagogy and practice in Sepedi language intellectualisation
Personalized medicine, digital technology and trust
Normativität und Emotionalität. Eine anthropologisch-evolutionäre Perspektive auf die Soziogenese zweier miteinander verbundener Modi humaner Vergesellschaftung
Watching the watchmen
Weighing the moral worth of altruistic actions
Educators’ Subjectivities in Localising Global Citizenship Education
Ideology vs. Collective Action
Exporting soft power of entertainment
Building Trust With Trust? A Qualitative, Explorative Study of Implementing a Trust Reform in a Norwegian Municipality
A temporal perspective to empirically investigate the concept of social distance
Back to social classes
A Change of Tune
Normative Framing and Public Attitudes toward Biofuels Policies
Grasping children’s media practices — theoretical and methodological challenges
To the Barricades! The Social Revolution of 1936 in Catalonia
Bounded Solidarity in Cross-National Encounters
The Language of Ethics and Double Standards in the Affective and Sexual Socialization of Youth. Communicative Acts in the Family Environment as Protective or Risk Factors of Intimate Partner Violence
Politicized Transnationalism
Public Administration and the Study of Political Order
Grumpy Old Men
Organisational antecedents of teachers’ perceived time capacity to energise effort
Bounded deliberation in public committees
The electoral impact of the attacks of March 11th in Madrid
Trust in Nanotechnology? On Trust as Analytical Tool in Social Research on Emerging Technologies
Trustworthy Nanotechnology
Why did they do that
Getting to agreement
What is Trust? A Multidisciplinary Review, Critique, and Synthesis
Structural and individualistic theories of poverty
The Social Politics of Breastfeeding
The Sources of Patriotism
Suicide Bombing
Between technochauvinism and human-centrism
Not Another Set of Nuts and Bolts
Out of the doll’s house. From zero-sum to positive-sum social freedom
Remarks on the sceptical turn in the historiography of the Haitian Revolution
Emotion, utility maximization, and ecological rationality
Animal vs. human rationality-cum-conceptuality
Punishment is not a group adaptation
Is the Study of Attitudes Sufficient for the Study of National Character? Putting the Work of Alex Inkeles in Context
Institutional Design for Collective Action
Earth system governance
Toward a Theory of Political Strategy in Policy Analysis
The Use of Case Studies in Law and Social Science Research
The Social Science of Democracy
How Does an Ideology Spread? Archival Evidence from an Extreme Case
Career-related learning of non-European full-time master's students in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom
The Europeanisation of national institutions reassessed
Rule changes and incentives in the League of Ireland from 1970 to 2014
Does Volunteering Cause Trust
Dissenting (in part) with the Dissent
International society is to international system as world society is to …? Systemic and societal processes in English School theory
Power and cause
Introduction to the Special Issue
The Importance of Norms
Reforming the United Nations Security Council
| Citations per year | 10.61 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1995 - 2026 (32) |
| Highly cited | Yes |