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020			_a9780199587452
082			_a301 OXF
100			_a"Hedstrom, Peter.(ed.)"
245		0	_aOxford handbook of analytical sociology / edited by Peter Hedstrom and Peter Bearman
260			_aNew Delhi
260			_bOUP
260			_c2009
300			_a772p.
365			_b9000
365			_dRS
520			_aAnalytical sociology is a strategy for understanding the social world. It is concerned with explaining important social facts such as network structures, patterns of residential segregation, typical beliefs, cultural tastes, and common ways of acting. It explains such facts by detailing in clear and precise ways the mechanisms through which the social facts were brought about. Making sense of the relationship between micro and macro thus is one of the central concerns of analytical sociology. The approach is a contemporary incarnation of Robert K. Merton's notion of middle-range theory and presents a vision of sociological theory as a tool-box of semi-general theories each of which is adequate for explaining certain types of phenomena. The Handbook brings together some of the most prominent sociologists in the world. Some of the chapters focus on action and interaction as the cogs and wheels of social processes, while others consider the dynamic social processes that these actions and interactions bring about.
650			_aSociology
942			_cB _2ddc