Autore	White James M. <1946->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (217 p.)
Disciplina	306.8501
Soggetto topico	Families - Philosophy Families - Research Sociology - Philosophy Sociology - Methodology
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4522-2974-0 1-4522-6303-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Untitled; Contents; Preface; 1 - Introduction; PART I: Understanding Theory: Product and Process; 2 - Family Theory and Social Science; 3 - Science and Its Critics; 4 - Theory, Models,and Metaphors; 5 - Functions and Types of Theory; PART II - Advancing Substantive Family Theories; 6 - Rational Choice Theory and the Family; 7 - Transition Theory; PART III: Beyond Theory: Ethics, Ideology, and Metatheory; 8 - Empirical Research and Theory; 9 - Theory and Human Values; 10 - Conclusion: Theories as Tools for Studying Families; References; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Author
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910480803403321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (ix, 320 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	301.01
Soggetto topico	Sociology Sociology - Methodology Social systems
ISBN	1-139-06345-6 1-107-21365-7 1-283-11101-2 9786613111012 1-139-07578-0 0-511-92131-4 1-139-07804-6 1-139-07003-7 1-139-08033-4 1-139-08261-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction / Pierre Demeulenaere -- ; Part I. Action and Mechanisms: ; 1. Ordinary rationality: the core of analytical sociology / Raymond Boudon; ; 2. Indeterminacy of emotional mechanisms / Jon Elster; ; 3. A naturalistic ontology for mechanistic explanations in the social sciences / Dan Sperber; ; 4. Conversation as mechanism: emergence in creative groups / R. Keith Sawyer -- ; Part II. Mechanisms and Causality: ; 5. Generative process model building / Thomas J. Fararo; ; 6. Singular mechanisms and Bayesian narratives / Peter Abell; ; 7. The logic of mechanismic explanations in the social sciences / Michael Schmid; ; 8. Social mechanisms and explanatory relevance / Petri Ylikoski; ; 9. Causal regularities, action and explanation/ Pierre Demeulenaere -- ; Part III. Approaches to Mechanisms: ; 10. Youth unemployment: a self-reinforcing process? / Yvonne Åberg and Peter Hedström; ; 11. Neighborhood effects, causal mechanisms, and the social structure of the city / Robert J. Sampson; ; 12. Social mechanisms and generative explanations : computational models with double agents / Michael W. Macy with Damon Centola, Andreas Flache, Arnout van de Rijt and Robb Willer; ; 13. Relative deprivation in Silico: agent-based models and causality in analytical sociology / Gianluca Manzo.
Altri titoli varianti	Analytical Sociology & Social Mechanisms
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910461758103321

Autore	Pellegrini Giuseppe
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Bologna : , : Societa editrice il Mulino Spa, , 2022
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (240 pages)
Disciplina	301
Soggetto topico	Sociology - Philosophy Sociology - Methodology
ISBN	88-15-37308-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	ita
Altri titoli varianti	Annuario Scienza Tecnologia e Società. Edizione 2022
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910584578403321

Autore	Tucker Kenneth H
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London, : SAGE, 1998
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (233 p.)
Disciplina	301/.01
Soggetto topico	Sociology - Philosophy Social sciences - Philosophy Sociology - Methodology
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4462-7902-2 1-85702-287-4 1-282-55911-7 9786612559112 0-85702-287-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	pt. 1. The reconstruction of social theory -- pt. 2. Social change and modernity.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456401103321

Autore	Tucker Kenneth H.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : , : Sage, , 1998
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (255 p.)
Disciplina	301.01 301.092 301/.01 306.092
Soggetto topico	Sociology - Methodology Postmodernism Social structure Sociology - Great Britain
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-134-86601-1 1-280-14924-8 9786610149247 0-203-98061-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; WHY GIDDENS AND NOT HABERMAS?; ON THE STYLE AND ARGUMENTATION OF THIS BOOK; PARTING THOUGHTS; 2 ANTHONY GIDDENS ; GIDDENS AND THE END OF SOCIOLOGY; CRITICISMS OF GIDDENS; GIDDENS AND POSTMODERNISM; AN OVERVIEW OF GIDDENS'S MAJOR CRITICS; SUMMARY, AND THE PARAMETERS OF THE PRESENT CRITIQUE; 3 THE NEW VERSUS THE OLD RULES OF SOCIOLOGICAL METHOD; GROUNDING HERMENEUTICS; SCHOPENHAUER'S CRITIQUE OF KANT; SOCIOLOGY AS THE SCIENCE OF DISCOVERIES; THE NORMAL VERSUS THE PATHOLOGICAL THE ONE, WELL-DESIGNED EXPERIMENTCONCLUSIONS; 4 THE ROLE OF DESIRE IN AGENCY AND STRUCTURE; DENATURING THE HUMAN AGENT; FAITH AND TRUST; SEARCHING FOR THE HEART OF SOCIOLOGY; HOW GIDDENS ATTEMPTS TO ACCOUNT FOR EMOTION IN HUMAN HISTORY; THE PARADOX OF AGENCY LEADING TO LESS AGENCY; DURKHEIM'S DEPICTION OF FAITH IN RELATION TO EMOTIONAL LIFE; THE EMOTIONAL COMPONENTS OF SOCIAL STRUCTURE; CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS; 5 GIDDENS'S POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY; GIDDENS'S CRITIQUE OF MARX; ELABORATING GIDDENS'S POSITION ON NATIONALISM AND THE NATION-STATE; GIDDENS ON POST-TRADITION GIDDENS'S VERSION OF THE END OF HISTORYTHE MEANINGS OF BOSNIA; FROM BOSNIA TO RUSSIA; CONCLUSIONS; 6 GIDDENS'S MODERNISM LITE; THE MUTUAL UNAWARENESS OF GIDDENS AND BAUDRILLARD; POSTMODERNITY TRANSFORMED INTO MODERNITY LITE; THE ROLE OF THE INFORMATION MEDIA; CONCLUSIONS; 7 UNLIMITED AGENCY AS THE NEW ANOMIE; PARTIAL AGENCY; MENTAL ILLNESS AS A PROBLEM WITH AGENCY; CAN EXCESSIVE AGENCY LEAD TO ANOMIE?; LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A RECONTEXTUALIZED READING OF DURKHEIM'S CONCEPT OF ANOMIE; ANOMIE AS SECULAR SIN; CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS; 8 CONCLUSIONS; MIXING METAPHORS CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGISTS AS THE LEISURE CLASSSUMMARY; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450259003321