Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology

Buch | Hardcover

528 Seiten

2021
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78990-684-4 (ISBN)

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Providing an up-to-date portrait of the concepts and methods of analytical sociology, this pivotal Research Handbook traces the historical evolution of the field, utilising key research examples to illustrate its core principles. It investigates how analytical sociology engages with other approaches such as analytical philosophy, structural individualism, social stratification research, complexity science, pragmatism, and critical realism, exploring the foundations of the field as well as its major explanatory mechanisms and methods.

Chapters examine the ways in which analytical sociology addresses crucial concepts, including norms, structures, context, contingency, action theory, and models of social interactions. Offering an in-depth analysis of cumulative advantage, complex contagions, and network amplification, this comprehensive Research Handbook discusses the range of data sources and methods available to analytical sociologists for empirical research, in particular digital traces, historical archives, game-theoretic models, causal inference techniques, social networks analysis, and agent-based simulations.

Creating a new synthesis of the theoretical and methodological resources required to carry out research using analytical sociology tools, the Research Handbook will be a key pedagogical resource for students and scholars of sociology and sociological theory, research methods, demography, social psychology, economics, and computer science.

Edited by Gianluca Manzo, Professor of Sociology, Sorbonne University, France

Contents:

Preface ix
Does analytical sociology practice what it preaches? An assessment of
analytical sociology through the Merton award 1
Gianluca Manzo

PART 1 THEORETICAL CONVERSATIONS
1 Understanding the Coleman boat 49
Petri Ylikoski
2 Analytical sociology, analytic philosophy and analytical Marxism 64
Daniel Little
3 Analytical sociology and its lesser-known antecedents:
structural individualism in European sociology 80
Werner Raub
4 Analytical sociology and complexity research 100
Michael Mäs
5 Analytical sociology and social stratification research 119
Carlo Barone
6 Analytical sociology and critical realism 135
Francesco Di Iorio and Francisco J. León-Medina
7 Analytical sociology and cultural sociology 155
Filippo Barbera
8 Analytical sociology and pragmatism 170
Matthew Norton

PART 2 PIVOTAL CONCEPTS AND MECHANISMS
9 Action 186
Clemens Kroneberg and Andreas Tutic
10 Interactions 204
Michael Mäs
11 Structure 220
Emily Erikson and Eric Feltham
12 Norms 233
Pierre Demeulenaere
13 Coupled contexts 249
Filippo Barbera and Nicola Negri
14 Contingency and randomness: a modal approach 264
Ivan Ermakoff
15 Cumulative advantage 286
Freda B. Lynn and Hannah W. Espy
16 Network amplification 308
Filiz Garip and Mario D. Molina
17 Complex contagions 321
Damon Centola

PART 3 PIVOTAL METHODS
18 Archival data 337
Katharina Burgdorf and Henning Hillmann
19 Digital data and methods 352
Viktoria Spaiser
20 Advances in mediation analysis 364
Kinga Makovi and Christopher Winship
21 Experiments 392
Giuseppe A. Veltri
22 Game-theoretic models 414
Wojtek Przepiorka
23 Network mechanisms and network models 432
Christoph Stadtfeld and Viviana Amati
24 Agent-based computational models 453
Andreas Flache and Carlos A. de Matos Fernandes
25 The many model approach 474
Scott E. Page
Coda—The past and future of analytical sociology 490
Peter Hedström

Index 506

Erscheinungsdatum	21.12.2021
Reihe/Serie	Research Handbooks in Sociology series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	1-78990-684-9 / 1789906849
ISBN-13	978-1-78990-684-4 / 9781789906844
Zustand	Neuware