Handbook of Sociological Science

Contents:

INTRODUCTION
1. Rigorous sociology 2
Werner Raub, Nan Dirk de Graaf, and Klarita Gerxhani

PART I RESEARCH PROGRAMS
2. Order from chaos: sociology as a population science 21
Michelle Jackson
3. Analytical sociology 38
Gianluca Manzo
4. Computational approaches in rigorous sociology: agent-based computational
modeling and computational social science 57
Andreas Flache, Michael Maes, and Marijn A. Keijzer
5. Stochastic network modeling as generative social science 73
Christian E.G. Steglich and Tom A.B. Snijders
6. Rational choice sociology: heuristic potential, applications, and limitations 100
Andreas Diekmann

PART II NEW AND ONGOING DEVELOPMENTS IN SELECTED FIELDS
7. Cultural capital and educational inequality: an assessment of the state of
the art 121
Mads Meier Jaeger
8. Integration in migration societies 135
Frank Kalter
9. Social networks: effects and formation 154
Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, and Werner Raub
10. Gender inequality, households, and work 176
Eva Jaspers, Tanja van der Lippe, and Marie Evertsson
11. Validation strategies in historical sociology (and beyond) 196
Ivan Ermakoff
12. Rigorous ethnography 215
Federico Varese
13. Evolution, biology, and society 232
Rosemary L. Hopcroft, Joseph Dippong, Hexuan Liu, and Rachel Kail
14. Sociogenomics: theoretical and empirical challenges of integrating molecular
genetics into sociological thinking 250
Melinda C. Mills

PART III METHODS
15. Causal inference with observational data 272
Richard Breen
16. Longitudinal designs and models for causal inference 287
Markus Gangl
17. Experimental sociology 309
Klarita Gerxhani and Luis Miller

PART IV RIGOROUS SOCIOLOGY IN ACTION: SHOWCASES
18. Explaining educational differentials: towards a formal rational action
theory 325
Richard Breen and John H. Goldthorpe
19. 'Explaining educational differentials' revisited: an evaluation of rigorous
theoretical foundations and empirical findings 356
Rolf Becker
20. Structural holes and good ideas 372
Ronald S. Burt
21. Network mechanisms in innovation: borrowing and sparking ideas around
structural holes 423
Balazs Vedres
22. Experimental study of inequality and unpredictability in an artificial
cultural market 443
Matthew J. Salganik, Peter Sheridan Dodds, and Duncan J. Watts
23. Self-correcting dynamics in social influence processes 446
Arnout van de Rijt

PART V FURTHER PERSPECTIVES
24. The climate crisis: what sociology can contribute 475
Dingeman Wiertz and Nan Dirk de Graaf
25. Roots of sociology as a science: some history of ideas 493
Thomas Voss
26. How to increase reproducibility and credibility of sociological research 512
Katrin Auspurg and Josef Bru?derl

Index 528

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• Pesquisa e estatística social
• Teoria social
• Sociologia

sociological science; rigorous sociology; theory construction; empirical research; research methods; societal problems and policy design