The paper is a contribution to a forthcoming special issue of the Journal Philosophy of the Social Sciences, edited by Andreas Pickel. The term (social) mechanism can be found frequently in recent social science literature, but only few authors have attempted to spell out systematically what exactly the term refers to. The paper begins by trying to close this gap. Use of the term (social) mechanism is the hallmark of an approach that is critical of the emphasis on correlational analysis, and on the covering-law model of explanation. The term mechanism, it is argued, should be used to refer to recurrent processes generating a specific kind of outcome or event; mechanism statements are accordingly statements about recurrent processes. Explana...
The past two decades have witnessed an increase in interest in social mechanisms and mechanistic exp...
La noción de mecanismos sociales ha experimentado un uso creciente en ciencias sociales. Estos se ha...
The study of mechanisms has received increased attention in recent years and contributed to the form...
"The term (social) mechanism can be found frequently in recent social science literature, but only f...
The paper is a contribution to a forthcoming special issue of the Journal Philosophy of the Social S...
The term “(social) mechanism ” is frequently encountered in the social science literature, but there...
The term “(social) mechanism” is frequently encountered in the social science literature, but there ...
Mechanisms are very much a part of social life. For example, we can see that inequality has tended t...
"Mechanisms are very much a part of social life. For example, we can see that inequality has tended ...
Social mechanisms and mechanism-based explanation have attracted considerable attention in the socia...
The notion of social mechanisms has experienced an increasing use in the social sciences as an alter...
This article, which takes a fresh look at micro–macro relations in the social sciences from the poin...
The aim of this paper is to examine the notion of social mechanisms by comparison with the notions o...
Social mechanisms are theoretical cogs and wheels that explain how and why one thing leads to anothe...
Social mechanisms are theoretical cogs and wheels that explain how and why one thing leads to anothe...
The past two decades have witnessed an increase in interest in social mechanisms and mechanistic exp...
La noción de mecanismos sociales ha experimentado un uso creciente en ciencias sociales. Estos se ha...
The study of mechanisms has received increased attention in recent years and contributed to the form...
"The term (social) mechanism can be found frequently in recent social science literature, but only f...
The paper is a contribution to a forthcoming special issue of the Journal Philosophy of the Social S...
The term “(social) mechanism ” is frequently encountered in the social science literature, but there...
The term “(social) mechanism” is frequently encountered in the social science literature, but there ...
Mechanisms are very much a part of social life. For example, we can see that inequality has tended t...
"Mechanisms are very much a part of social life. For example, we can see that inequality has tended ...
Social mechanisms and mechanism-based explanation have attracted considerable attention in the socia...
The notion of social mechanisms has experienced an increasing use in the social sciences as an alter...
This article, which takes a fresh look at micro–macro relations in the social sciences from the poin...
The aim of this paper is to examine the notion of social mechanisms by comparison with the notions o...
Social mechanisms are theoretical cogs and wheels that explain how and why one thing leads to anothe...
Social mechanisms are theoretical cogs and wheels that explain how and why one thing leads to anothe...
The past two decades have witnessed an increase in interest in social mechanisms and mechanistic exp...
La noción de mecanismos sociales ha experimentado un uso creciente en ciencias sociales. Estos se ha...
The study of mechanisms has received increased attention in recent years and contributed to the form...