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  • Micro-Macro Links and Microfoundations in Sociology

    Edited by Vincent Buskens, Werner Raub, Marcel Van Assen ...
    Micro-Macro Links and Microfoundations in Sociology focuses on two main issues in sociology. Firstly, how macro-conditions can explain macro-outcomes mediated by actor behaviour at the micro-level (micro-macro links). Secondly, how alternative micro-models affect macro-outcomes (microfoundations). The contributions reflect key features of micro-macro modelling in sociology as well as recent ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Rationality in Social Science

    Foundations, Norms, and Prosociality

    Edited by Ivar Krumpal, Werner Raub, Andreas Tutić ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The concept of rationality and its significance for theory and empirical research in social science are key topics of scholarly discussion. In the tradition of an analytical as well as empirical approach in social science, this volume assembles novel contributions on methodological foundations and basic assumptions of theories of rational choice. The volume highlights the use of rational choice ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

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  • Knowledge and Action

    Edited by Peter Meusburger, Benno Werlen, Laura Suarsana ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume explores interdependencies between knowledge, action, and space from different interdisciplinary perspectives. Some of the contributors discuss knowledge as a social construct based on collective action, while others look at knowledge as an individual capacity for action. The chapters contain theoretical frameworks as well as experimental outcomes.Readers will gain insight into key ... Read more

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  • Agent-Based Computational Sociology

    by Flaminio Squazzoni ...
    Most of the intriguing social phenomena of our time, such as international terrorism, social inequality, and urban ethnic segregation, are consequences of complex forms of agent interaction that are difficult to observe methodically and experimentally. This book looks at a new research stream that makes use of advanced computer simulation modelling techniques to spotlight agent interaction that ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Social Networks

    An Introduction

    by Jeroen Bruggeman ...
    Social Networks: An Introduction is the first textbook that combines new with still-valuable older methods and theories.Designed to be a core text for graduate (and some undergraduate) courses in a variety of disciplines it is well-suited for everybody who makes a first encounter with the field of social networks, both academics and practitioners.This book includes reviews, study questions and ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics

    A Handbook

    Edited by Andrew Caplin, Andrew Schotter ...
    Series series Handbooks of Economic Methodology
    The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics: A Handbook is the first book in a new series by Andrew Caplin and Andrew Schotter. There is currently no guide available on the rapidly changing methodological frontiers of the field of economics. Economists have been introducing new theories and new sources of data at a remarkable rate in recent years, and there are widely divergent views both ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Theories of Political Protest and Social Movements

    A Multidisciplinary Introduction, Critique, and Synthesis

    by Karl-Dieter Opp ...
    Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena. This book focuses on the current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining them: the theory of collective action, the resource mobilization perspective, political opportunity structure theory, the identity approach, the framing perspective, and the dynamics of contention approach. The book has three objectives: (1) Many basic ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology

    Edited by Peter Bearman, Peter Hedström ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Analytical 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 ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Essentials of Risk Theory

    Edited by Sabine Roeser, Per Sandin, Martin Peterson, Rafaela Hillerbrand ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars. This Springer Essentials version offers an overview of the in-depth handbook and highlights some of the main points covered in the Handbook of Risk Theory. The topic of risk also leads to more fundamental questions such ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Creation and Returns of Social Capital

    Edited by Henk Flap, Beate Völker ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    The idea of a social capital research program has become increasingly significant within the social sciences. This collection of essays contributes to a theoretical integration as well as standardization of measurement instruments and co-ordination of empirical research on the significance of social capital. ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Economics

    by Uskali Mäki, John Woods, Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard ...
    Series series Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
    Part of the Handbook of the Philosophy of Science Series edited by: Dov M. Gabbay King's College, London, UK;Paul Thagard University of Waterloo, Canada; and John Woods University of British Columbia, Canada. Philosophy of Economics investigates the foundational concepts and methods of economics, the social science that analyzes the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. ... Read more

    $199.19 CAD

  • The Foundations of Evolutionary Institutional Economics

    Generic Institutionalism

    by Manuel Scholz-Wackerle ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics
    Generic institutionalism offers a new perspective on institutional economic change within an evolutionary framework. The institutional landscape shapes the social fabric and economic organization in manifold ways. The book elaborates on the ubiquity of such institutional forms with regards to their emergence, durability and exit in social agency-structure relations. Thereby institutions are ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD