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1. www.princeton.edu › ~sociolog › pdfSocial Change: Mechanisms and Metaphors - Princeton University

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   lurked in nineteenth century history and sociology and culminated in the-ories of modernization in the 1950s and 1960s.1 This image was a list of outcomes that defined what a modern society was. It included urbanism, explosive population growth, democratization, secularization, industrializa-tion, and so on.

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2. assets.cambridge.org › 97805215 › 93199SOCIAL MECHANISMS: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory

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   0521593190 - Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory Edited by Peter Hedstrom and Richard Swedberg Frontmatter More information. Title:

3. helda.helsinki.fi › bitstream › handleSocial Mechanisms Ylikoski, Petri Kullervo - Helsinki

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   Social Mechanisms. Petri Ylikoski. Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University (Sweden) Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki (Finland) ve attracted considerable attention in thesocial sciences and the philoso. hy of science during th. zing existing research practices and meta-theoretical views on the.

4. link.springer.com › article › 10What are mechanisms in social science? | Metascience - Springer

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   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 ...

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5. www.semanticscholar.org › paper › Mechanisms-in[PDF] Mechanisms in sociology—a critical intervention ...

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   Apr 9, 2024 · The notion of the mechanism is one of the most popular and widely used concepts in science and sociology is no exception. This paper problematizes the widespread and often uncritical use of the term “mechanism” in contemporary sociology. Drawing on the mechanistic worldview associated with leading figures of the scientific revolution, the paper emphasizes the impact of mechanistic thinking ...

6. link.springer.com › content › pdfMechanistic explanations and components of social mechanisms

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   A core idea of analytical sociology is the principle of mechanism-based explanations. Although analytical sociology is not a completely homogenous movement, all analyt-ical sociologists support the mechanistic account of scientific explanation. Mechanistic explanations in sociology are proposed as an alternative to covering-law explanations

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   What is social mechanism in sociology?

   • One of the central concepts figuring in analytical sociology is ‘social mechanism’: “Whenever we start explaining ‘why’ something happens, beyond mere description, we are necessarily led to introduce some type of causal linkage of elements that in turn raises the question of mechanism.

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   What is a mechanism in philosophy?

   • 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).

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   What is a middle-range theory of social mechanisms?

   • development of middle-range theories (Hedström & Udéhn 2009) about social mechanisms. In this be adapted to particular situations and explanatory tasks. According to this toolbox view (Hedström compatible. The understanding of the social world accumulates as the knowledge of the mechanism

   Social Mechanisms Ylikoski, Petri Kullervo - Helsinki

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   What is a mechanisms-based approach to social theory?

   • The mechanisms-based approach to social theory should not be confused with a purely descriptive approach that seeks to account for the unique chain of events that lead from one situation or event to another.

   Social Mechanisms: Social mechanisms: An introductory essay

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   Where did the theory of mechanisms come from?

   • Theorizing about mechanisms has multiple origins in the social sciences. Among the most prominent early sources is Rom Harré's (1970) philosophy of science. Although his later work has through the so-called critical realist movement. The key thinker in this movement is Roy Bhaskar role.

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   What is a'mechanism' in sociology?

   • In Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms, one hardly finds explicit definitions of ‘mechanism’, while the concept is used implicitly in many divergent ways. These can roughly be classified in three groups that should not (but often seem to) be used interchangeably.

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8. www.semanticscholar.org › paper › Social-Mechanisms[PDF] Social Mechanisms: Social mechanisms: An introductory ...

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   Sociology. Introduction The main message of this book is that the advancement of social theory calls for an analytical approach that systematically seeks to explicate the social mechanisms that generate and explain observed associations between events. It might appear obvious that every social theory, worthy of its name, should be explanatory.