Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory

1998. Cambridge University Press.

Innehåll

1. Social mechanisms: an introductory essay Peter Hedström and Richard Swedberg

1. Social mechanisms and social dynamics Thomas C. Schelling

1. A plea for mechanisms Jon Elster

1. Real virtuality Gudmund Hernes

1. Concatenations of mechanisms Diego Gambetta

1. Do economists use social mechanisms to explain? Tyler Cowen

1. Social mechanisms of dissonance reduction Timur Kuran

1. Social mechanisms without black boxes Raymond Boudon

1. Is sociological theory too grand for social mechanisms? Axel van den Berg

1. Theoretical mechanisms and the empirical study of social processes Aage B. Sørensen

1. Monopolistic competition as a mechanism: corporations, universities, and nation-states in competitive fields Arthur L. Stinchcombe

1. Rational imitation Peter Hedström