Social Mechanisms
Subtitle: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory (Studies in Rationality and Social Change)
Contributors: Peter Hedström (Editor); Richard Swedberg (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780521593199
Subjects: Social theory; Sociology - Social Theory; Social Science; Social Change; Sociological Theory; Politics / Current Events; Sociology - General; Sociology; Social systems; General; Political Science-General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Sociology--Methodology; Methodology
First sentence: 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.