1810856876     

Handbook of sociological science : contributions to rigorous sociology / edited by Klarita Gërxhani (Professor of Sociology, Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute (EUI), Italy), Nan Dirk de Graaf (Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK), Werner Raub (Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology/ICS, Utrecht University, the Netherlands)

Gërxhani, Klarita, 1973- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Graaf, Nan Dirk de, 1958- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Raub, Werner, 1953- [Herausgeberin/-geber]

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2022] [© 2022]

1 Online-Ressource (xii, 540 Seiten) : Illustrationen, Diagramme

Englisch

Erscheint auch als: Handbook of sociological science (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-78990-943-2

978-1-78990-942-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

MR 5100  | MR 1100      Ähnliche Literatur

301.01

Basisklassifikation: 70.03 (Methoden, Techniken und Organisation der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung) ; 71.05 (Soziologische Richtungen)

*Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Rigorous sociology -- Part I Research programs -- 2. Order from chaos: sociology as a population science -- 3. Analytical sociology -- 4. Computational approaches in rigorous sociology: agent-based computational modeling and computational social science -- 5. Stochastic network modeling as generative social science -- 6. Rational choice sociology: heuristic potential, applications, and limitations -- Part II New and ongoing developments in selected fields -- 7. Cultural capital and educational inequality: an assessment of the state of the art -- 8. Integration in migration societies -- 9. Social networks: effects and formation -- 10. Gender inequality, households, and work -- 11. Validation strategies in historical sociology (and beyond) -- 12. Rigorous ethnography -- 13. Evolution, biology, and society -- 14. Sociogenomics: theoretical and empirical challenges of integrating molecular genetics into sociological thinking -- Part III Methods -- 15. Causal inference with observational data -- 16. Longitudinal designs and models for causal inference -- 17. Experimental sociology -- Part IV Rigorous sociology in action: showcases -- 18. Explaining educational differentials -- 19. 'Explaining educational differentials' revisited: an evaluation of rigorous theoretical foundations and empirical findings -- 20. Structural holes and good ideas -- 21. Network mechanisms in innovation: borrowing and sparking ideas around structural holes -- 22. Experimental study of inequality and unpredictability in an artificial cultural market -- 23. Self-correcting dynamics in social influence processes -- Part V Further perspectives -- 24. The climate crisis: what sociology can contribute -- 25. Roots of sociology as a science: some history of ideas.