The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology

Peter Hedström, Peter Bearman

Oxford University Press

2009

772 páginas

1d 1h 44m

ISBN-13: 9780199215362

Inglês

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 centralconcerns of analytical sociology. 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 socialprocesses, while others consider the dynamic social processes that these actions and interactions.