Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology

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.

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• Authors: Peter Bearman, Peter ( Hedstrom, Peter Bearman Hedstrom, Peter Hedström, HEDSTROM PETER BEARMAN PETER
• Assisted by: Peter Bearman (Editor), Peter Hedstrom (Editor), Peter Hedström (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.01.2011
• EAN: 9780199587452
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958745-2
• No. of pages: 796
• Series: Oxford Handbooks in Politics and International Relations; Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks in Politics & International Relations
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories