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   Analytical sociology is an influential approach to sociology which holds that explanations of social phenomena should focus on the social mechanisms that bring them about. This book evaluates the major features of this approach, focusing on the significance of the notion of mechanism.

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   Social Mechanisms. An Analytical Approach to Social Theory. Cambridge University Press. CrossRef. Hedström, Peter and Udéhn, Lars. 2009. “Analytical sociology and theories of the middle range,” in Hedström, Peter and Bearman, Peter (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology. Oxford University Press, 25–47.

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   Aug 5, 2013 · Hedström P, Swedberg R (1998b) Social mechanisms: An introductory essay. In: Hedström P, Swedberg R (eds) Social Mechanisms. An analytical approach to social theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1–31.

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   Analytical sociology is an influential approach to sociology which holds that explanations of social phenomena should focus on the social mecha-nisms that bring them about. This book evaluates the major features of this approach, focusing on the significance of the notion of mech-anism. Leading scholars seek to answer a number of questions in ...

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   Nov 30, 2011 · So in the end, complex systems mechanisms are complexes of theoretical building blocks. Yet still they are importantly different. Hence, after reading Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms, one cannot avoid the impression that there still is not even a hint of consensus on the concept of ‘social mechanism’. Some authors even use ...

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   What is social mechanism in analytical sociology?

   • Analytical sociology is impelled in this way toward the study of mechanisms and their functioning. Emphasis on the notion of mechanism corresponds to an evaluation of the proper role of causal linkages in the social sciences” (2). Yet there is no consensus on the notion of ‘social mechanism’ in analytical sociology. This is not a new complaint.

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   What is a good book on social mechanisms?

   • Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 352 pp.; Peter Hedström (2005). Dissecting the Social. On the Principles of Analytical Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 177 pp.].

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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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   What is analytical sociology?

   • Analytical sociology should not therefore be seen as a manifesto for one particular way of doing sociology as compared with others, but as an effort to clarify (“analytically”) theoretical and epistemological principles which underlie any satisfactory way of doing sociology (and, in fact, any social science).

   Introduction - Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms

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   Why is analytical sociology important?

   • Altogether, the main merit of Hedström and Bearman’s edited book is to show that, partly under pressure from critics, partly because of the dialogue with behavioural economics, cognitive social psychology, computational sciences, complexity theory, and biology, analytical sociology is progressively enriching.

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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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   Oct 28, 2010 · What is analytical sociology all about? It is an effort to explain social facts by detailing the mechanisms through which these social facts are brought about. A mechanism should be understood as a constellation of entities (typically, individual actors) and activities (individuals’ actions and their intended or unintended consequences, and relations between individuals) that regularly ...