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Apr 5, 2016 · During the past decade, social mechanisms and mechanism-based explanations have received considerable attention in the social sciences as well as in the philosophy of science. This article critically reviews the most important philosophical and social science contributions to the mechanism approach. The first part discusses the idea of mechanism-based explanation from the point of view of ...
Nov 30, 2011 · This is the standard view of mechanisms in philosophy of (the life) science (s). According to Demeulenaere “a mechanism is [a] set of elements and their causal links that regularly lead from an initial social state to a subsequent one” (12; see also 188–189). Michael Schmid writes that “social scientific explanations are to be couched ...
- Bert Leuridan
- Bert.Leuridan@UGent.be
- 2012
- Overview
- Mechanisms of social change
Causal explanations of social change are limited in scope, especially when the subject of study involves initial conditions or basic processes. A more general and theoretical way of explaining social change is to construct a model of recurring mechanisms of social change. Such mechanisms, incorporated in different theoretical models, include the fo...
Causal explanations of social change are limited in scope, especially when the subject of study involves initial conditions or basic processes. A more general and theoretical way of explaining social change is to construct a model of recurring mechanisms of social change. Such mechanisms, incorporated in different theoretical models, include the fo...
Wide-ranging and authoritative, this bestselling sociology dictionary is the most informative of its kind. Compiled by a team of sociological experts, under the editorship of Gordon Marshall and John Scott, it is packed with over 2,500 entries. With terms taken from sociology and the related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology ...
Mar 7, 2019 · Social mechanisms are systems of parts whose connections enable them to interact in ways that produce regular changes. In the social world, the main parts are individual people, but parts can also be groups formed out of those individuals. The interactions between individuals and groups are primarily verbal and nonverbal communication but can ...
Oct 31, 2024 · eISBN: 9780191763052. John Scott, author. John Scott is Honorary Professor at the Universities of Exeter and Copenhagen. He is a former President of the British Sociological Association and was awarded a CBE for Services to Social Science in the 2013 Honours List. In 2014 the BSA awarded him the Distinguished Service to British Sociology Award.
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It is the study of social institutions – the family, religion, sport, community, and so on. We can study institutions at the micro-level by looking at interactions between family members, for exam-ple, or we can examine macro-relations such as the family and kinship system of a society as a whole.
