Kniha: The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology v anglickom jazyku

• Draws together a number of leading sociologists from around the world
• Definitive and comprehensive

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.

Readership: Scholars and students of sociology and social sciences.

Foundations
1: Peter Hedström and Peter Bearman: What is analytical sociology all about? An introductory essay by Peter Hedström
2: Peter Hedström and Lars Udéhn: Analytical sociology and theories of the middle range
Social Cogs and Wheels
3: Jon Elster: Emotions
4: Jens Rydgren: Beliefs
5: Jeremy Freese: Preferences
6: Trond Petersen: Opportunities
7: Dan Goldstein: Heuristics
8: Diego Gambetta: Signaling
9: Jon Elster: Norms
10: Karen Cook and Alexandra Gerbasi: Trust
Social Dynamics
11: Michael Macy and Andreas Flache: Social dynamics from the bottom up: Agent-based models of social

tvrdá väzba, 800 pages | 246x171mm