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Informationen zum Autor Peter Hedström is a Professor of Sociology, Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Singapore Management University, and Official Fellow of Nuffield College at Oxford University. His area of specialization is analytical sociology. He has a special interest in the analysis of complex social networks, particularly analyses seeking to explain how the structure of the networks in which individuals are embedded influence the collective outcomes the individuals bring about.Peter Bearman is Director of the Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, the Cole Professor of Social Science, and Co-Director of the Health & Society Scholars Program. A recipient of the NIH Director's Pioneer Award in 2007, Bearman is currently investigating the social determinants of the autism epidemic. Current projects also include an ethnographic study of the funeral industry and, with support from the American Legacy Foundation, an investigation of the social and economic consequences of tobacco control policy. Klappentext This Oxford Handbook brings together some of the most prominent sociologists in the world to provide a comprehensive and authoritative examination of analytical sociology. Zusammenfassung This Oxford Handbook brings together some of the most prominent sociologists in the world to provide a comprehensive and authoritative examination of analytical sociology. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 interaction 12: Elizabeth Bruch and Robert Mare: Segregation dynamics 13: Michael Biggs: Self fulfilling processes 14: Matthew Salganik and Duncan Watts: Social influence: The puzzling nature of success in cultural markets 15: Yvonne Åberg: The Contagiousness of Divorce 16: Katherine Stovel and Christine Fountain: Matching 17: Delia Baldassarri: Collective action 18: Meredith Rolfe: Conditional choice 19: James Moody: Network dynamics 20: Duncan Watts and Peter Dodds: Threshold models of social influence 21: Christopher Winship: Time and scheduling 22: Scott Feld and Bernard Grofman: Homophily and the focused organization of ties 23: Joel Podolny and Freda Lynn: Status 24: Ivan Chase and W. Brent Lindquist: Dominance hierarchies 25: Stathis Kalyvas: Conflict Perspectives from other fields and approaches 26: Richard Breen: Game theory 27: Iris Bohnet: Experiments 28: Hannah Brueckner: Surveys 29: Diane Vaughan: Analytical ethnography 30: Karen Barkey: Historical sociology ...
