The notion of social mechanisms has experienced an increasing use in the social sciences as an alternative explanatory framework to the logic of co-variation present in multivariate analyses, emphasizing the causal explanation of social phenomena over their mere description. This paper seeks two goals. In the one hand, summarise recent literature on social mechanisms in order to clarify their meanings, different modes of use and their contribution to empirical research. In the other hand, we will shed some light onto the relation between social mechanisms and the micro-macro problem in social sciences. We argue that the search for social mechanisms and reductionism in social sciences correspond to two interrelated but analytically distingui...
The aim of this paper is to examine the notion of social mechanisms by comparison with the notions o...
This article explores the role of theory-building in social stratification research, a sub-field of ...
Over 40 years of research in the IMP tradition has resulted in a variety of different kinds of publi...
The notion of social mechanisms has experienced an increasing use in the social sciences as an alter...
La noción de mecanismos sociales ha experimentado un uso creciente en ciencias sociales. Estos se ha...
The paper is a contribution to a forthcoming special issue of the Journal Philosophy of the Social S...
'The term (social) mechanism can be found frequently in recent social science literature, but only f...
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 ...
The paper is a contribution to a forthcoming special issue of the Journal Philosophy of the Social S...
This article, which takes a fresh look at micro–macro relations in the social sciences from the poin...
Social mechanisms and mechanism-based explanation have attracted considerable attention in the socia...
Abstract: This article explores the role of theory-building in social stratifi ca-tion research, a s...
The aim of this article is to defend the thesis that agent-based models (ABMs) permit us to successf...
Mechanisms are usually understood as sequences of events that allow us to explain regular observed b...
The aim of this paper is to examine the notion of social mechanisms by comparison with the notions o...
This article explores the role of theory-building in social stratification research, a sub-field of ...
Over 40 years of research in the IMP tradition has resulted in a variety of different kinds of publi...
The notion of social mechanisms has experienced an increasing use in the social sciences as an alter...
La noción de mecanismos sociales ha experimentado un uso creciente en ciencias sociales. Estos se ha...
The paper is a contribution to a forthcoming special issue of the Journal Philosophy of the Social S...
'The term (social) mechanism can be found frequently in recent social science literature, but only f...
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 ...
The paper is a contribution to a forthcoming special issue of the Journal Philosophy of the Social S...
This article, which takes a fresh look at micro–macro relations in the social sciences from the poin...
Social mechanisms and mechanism-based explanation have attracted considerable attention in the socia...
Abstract: This article explores the role of theory-building in social stratifi ca-tion research, a s...
The aim of this article is to defend the thesis that agent-based models (ABMs) permit us to successf...
Mechanisms are usually understood as sequences of events that allow us to explain regular observed b...
The aim of this paper is to examine the notion of social mechanisms by comparison with the notions o...
This article explores the role of theory-building in social stratification research, a sub-field of ...
Over 40 years of research in the IMP tradition has resulted in a variety of different kinds of publi...