The Oxford Handbook Of Analytical Sociology

Author : Peter Hedström
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191615234
Total Pages : 795 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology written by Peter Hedström and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analytical sociology is a strategy for understanding the social world. It is concerned with explaining important social facts such as network structures, patterns of residential segregation, typical beliefs, cultural tastes, and common ways of acting. It explains such facts by detailing in clear and precise ways the mechanisms through which the social facts were brought about. Making sense of the relationship between micro and macro thus is one of the central concerns of analytical sociology. The approach is a contemporary incarnation of Robert K. Merton's notion of middle-range theory and presents a vision of sociological theory as a tool-box of semi-general theories each of which is adequate for explaining certain types of phenomena. The Handbook brings together some of the most prominent sociologists in the world. Some of the chapters focus on action and interaction as the cogs and wheels of social processes, while others consider the dynamic social processes that these actions and interactions bring about.

Author : Peter Hedström
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199215367
Total Pages : 795 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology written by Peter Hedström and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Oxford Handbook brings together some of the most prominent sociologists in the world to provide a comprehensive and authoritative examination of analytical sociology.

Author : Peter Hedström
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199215367
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology written by Peter Hedström and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Oxford Handbook brings together some of the most prominent sociologists in the world to provide a comprehensive and authoritative examination of analytical sociology.

Author : Manzo, Gianluca
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789906857
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology written by Manzo, Gianluca and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 topic as well as its major explanatory mechanisms and methods.

Author : Paul S. Adler
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 019953523X
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies written by Paul S. Adler and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2009 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a society of organisations, organisations which have profound and pervasive effects on our lives at work and beyond. Contemporary society and its organisations are in a period of accelerated, profound change. In this book, leading sociology and organsational scholars consider how 'classic' sociologists can help make sense of change.

Author : Ryan Light
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019025176X
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks written by Ryan Light and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Social networks fundamentally shape our lives. Networks channel the ways that information, emotions, and diseases flow through populations. Networks reflect differences in power and status in settings ranging from small peer groups to international relations across the globe. Network tools even provide insights into the ways that concepts, ideas and other socially generated contents shape culture and meaning. As such, the rich and diverse field of social network analysis has emerged as a central tool across the social sciences. This Handbook provides an overview of the theory, methods, and substantive contributions of this field. The thirty-three chapters move through the basics of social network analysis aimed at those seeking an introduction to advanced and novel approaches to modeling social networks statistically. The Handbook includes chapters on data collection and visualization, theoretical innovations, links between networks and computational social science, and how social network analysis has contributed substantively across numerous fields. As networks are everywhere in social life, the field is inherently interdisciplinary and this Handbook includes contributions from leading scholars in sociology, archaeology, economics, statistics, and information science among others"--

Author : Jerrold Levinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199279456
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics written by Jerrold Levinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-27 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics' has assembled 48 brand-new essays, making this a comprehensive guide available to the theory, application, history, and future of the field.

Author : Barry R. Weingast
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199548471
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy written by Barry R. Weingast and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over its lifetime, 'political economy' has had different meanings. This handbook views political economy as a synthesis of the various strands of social science, treating it as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behaviour and institutions.

Author : Paul S. Adler
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199671087
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies written by Paul S. Adler and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2014 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines how contemporary currents in sociology and social theory have influenced the field of organisation studies. It aims to combat the tendency towards myopia in the organisation studies field, which encourages reliance on resources and references drawn from within the field and discourages scholars from going beyond these boundaries to find inspiration and ideas. The contributing authors show how sociologists and sociological concepts from the US and Europe have provided new insights into the functioning of organisations.

Author : Peter Hedstrom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139447331
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Dissecting the Social written by Peter Hedstrom and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few decades serious reservations have been expressed about the explanatory power of sociological theory and research. In this important book, leading social theorist Peter Hedström outlines the foundations of an analytically oriented sociology that seeks to address this criticism. Building on his earlier influential contributions to contemporary debates, Professor Hedström argues for a systematic development of sociological theory so that it has the explanatory power and precision to inform sociological research and understanding. He discusses various mechanisms of action and interaction and shows how strong links can be forged between the micro and the macro, and between theory and empirical research. Combining approaches to theory and methodology and using extensive examples to illustrate how they might be applied, this clear, concise and original book will appeal to a broad range of social scientists.