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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2010
      January 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511663901
      9780521593199
      9780521596879
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511663901
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.592kg, 356 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 356 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Theory, Philosophy of Social Science, Sociology
      Series:
      Studies in Rationality and Social Change
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    Subjects:
    Social Theory, Philosophy of Social Science, Sociology
    Series:
    Studies in Rationality and Social Change
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    The advancement of social theory requires an analytical approach that systematically seeks to explicate the social mechanisms that generate and explain observed associations between events. These essays, written by prominent social scientists, advance criticisms of current trends in social theory and suggest alternative approaches. The mechanism approach calls attention to an intermediary level of analysis in between pure description and story-telling, on the one hand, and grand theorizing and universal social laws, on the other. For social theory to be of use for the working social scientist, it must attain a high level of precision and provide a toolbox from which middle range theories can be constructed.

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