Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
- 1 Social mechanisms: An introductory essay
- 2 Social mechanisms and social dynamics
- 3 A plea for mechanisms
- 4 Real virtuality
- 5 Concatenations of mechanisms
- 6 Do economists use social mechanisms to explain?
- 7 Social mechanisms of dissonance reduction
- 8 Social mechanisms without black boxes
- 9 Is sociological theory too grand for social mechanisms?
- 10 Theoretical mechanisms and the empirical study of social processes
- 11 Monopolistic competition as a mechanism: Corporations, universities, and nation-states in competitive fields
- 12 Rational imitation
- AUTHOR INDEX
- SUBJECT INDEX
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 March 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
- 1 Social mechanisms: An introductory essay
- 2 Social mechanisms and social dynamics
- 3 A plea for mechanisms
- 4 Real virtuality
- 5 Concatenations of mechanisms
- 6 Do economists use social mechanisms to explain?
- 7 Social mechanisms of dissonance reduction
- 8 Social mechanisms without black boxes
- 9 Is sociological theory too grand for social mechanisms?
- 10 Theoretical mechanisms and the empirical study of social processes
- 11 Monopolistic competition as a mechanism: Corporations, universities, and nation-states in competitive fields
- 12 Rational imitation
- AUTHOR INDEX
- SUBJECT INDEX
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- Social MechanismsAn Analytical Approach to Social Theory, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998