Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology (Research Handbooks in Sociology series)

« Providing an up-to-date portrait of the concepts and methods of analytical sociology, this pivotal Research Handbook traces the historical evolution of the field, utilising key research examples to illustrate its core principles. It investigates how analytical sociology engages with other approaches such as analytical philosophy, structural individualism, social stratification research, complexity science, pragmatism, and critical realism, exploring the foundations of the field as well as its major explanatory mechanisms and methods. Chapters examine the ways in which analytical sociology addresses crucial concepts, including norms, structures, context, contingency, action theory, and models of social interactions. Offering an in-depth analysis of cumulative advantage, complex contagions, and network amplification, this comprehensive Research Handbook discusses the range of data sources and methods available to analytical sociologists for empirical research, in particular digital traces, historical archives, game-theoretic models, causal inference techniques, social networks analysis, and agent-based simulations. Creating a new synthesis of the theoretical and methodological resources required to carry out research using analytical sociology tools, the Research Handbook will be a key pedagogical resource for students and scholars of sociology and sociological theory, research methods, demography, social psychology, economics, and computer science. »-- Résumé de l'éditeur [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Copyright 2 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Contents 3 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Contributors 5 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Preface 7 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Does analytical sociology practice what it preaches_ An assessment of analytical sociology through the Merton award 11 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Understanding the Coleman boat 58 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Analytical sociology, analytic philosophy and analytical Marxism 73 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Analytical sociology and its lesser-known antecedents_ structural individualism in European sociology 89 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Analytical sociology and complexity research 109 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Analytical sociology and social stratification research 128 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Analytical sociology and critical realism 144 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Analytical sociology and cultural sociology 164 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Analytical sociology and pragmatism 179 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Action 194 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Interactions 212 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Structure 228 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Norms 241 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Coupled contexts 257 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Contingency and randomness_ a modal approach 272 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Cumulative advantage 294 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Network amplification 316 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Complex contagions 329 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Archival data 344 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Digital data and methods 359 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Advances in mediation analysis 371 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Experiments 399 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Game-theoretic models 421 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Network mechanisms and network models 439 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Agent-based computational models 460 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] The many model approach 481 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Coda - The past and future of analytical sociology 497 [9781789906844 - Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology] Index 513 Providing an up-to-date portrait of the concepts and methods of analytical sociology, this pivotal Research Handbook traces the historical evolution of the field, utilising key research examples to illustrate its core principles. It investigates how analytical sociology engages with other approaches such as analytical philosophy, structural individualism, social stratification research, complexity science, pragmatism, and critical realism, exploring the foundations of the field as well as its major explanatory mechanisms and methods. Chapters examine the ways in which analytical sociology addresses crucial concepts, including norms, structures, context, contingency, action theory, and models of social interactions. Offering an in-depth analysis of cumulative advantage, complex contagions, and network amplification, this comprehensive Research Handbook discusses the range of data sources and methods available to analytical sociologists for empirical research, in particular digital traces, historical archives, game-theoretic models, causal inference techniques, social networks analysis, and agent-based simulations. Creating a new synthesis of the theoretical and methodological resources required to carry out research using analytical sociology tools, the Research Handbook will be a key pedagogical resource for students and scholars of sociology and sociological theory, research methods, demography, social psychology, economics, and computer science. -- Provided by publisher "Providing an up-to-date portrait of the concepts and methods of analytical sociology, this pivotal Research Handbook traces the historical evolution of the field, utilising key research examples to illustrate its core principles. It investigates how analytical sociology engages with other approaches such as analytical philosophy, structural individualism, social stratification research, complexity science, pragmatism and critical realism, exploring the foundations of the topic as well as its major explanatory mechanisms and methods. Chapters examine the ways in which analytical sociology addresses crucial concepts, including norms, structures, context, contingency, action theory, and models of social interactions. Offering an in-depth analysis of cumulative advantage, complex contagions, and network amplification, this comprehensive Research Handbook discusses the range of data sources and methods available to analytical sociologists for empirical research, in particular digital traces, historical archives, game-theoretic models, causal inference techniques, social networks analysis, and agent-based simulations. Creating a new synthesis of the theoretical and methodological resources required to carry out research using analytical sociology tools, the Research Handbook will be a key pedagogical resource for students and scholars of sociology and sociological theory, research methods, demography, social psychology, economics and computer science"-- Provided by publisher