Providing an up-to-date portrait of the concepts and methods of
analytical sociology, this pivotal Research Handbook traces the
historical evolution of the field, utilising key research examples
to illustrate its core principles. It investigates how analytical
sociology engages with other approaches such as analytical
philosophy, structural individualism, social stratification
research, complexity science, pragmatism, and critical realism,
exploring the foundations of the field as well as its major
explanatory mechanisms and methods. Chapters examine the ways in
which analytical sociology addresses crucial concepts, including
norms, structures, context, contingency, action theory, and models
of social interactions. Offering an in-depth analysis of cumulative
advantage, complex contagions, and network amplification, this
comprehensive Research Handbook discusses the range of data sources
and methods available to analytical sociologists for empirical
research, in particular digital traces, historical archives,
game-theoretic models, causal inference techniques, social networks
analysis, and agent-based simulations. Creating a new synthesis of
the theoretical and methodological resources required to carry out
research using analytical sociology tools, the Research Handbook
will be a key pedagogical resource for students and scholars of
sociology and sociological theory, research methods, demography,
social psychology, economics, and computer science.
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