Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology

Edited by Gianluca Manzo, Professor of Sociology, Sorbonne University, France

• Contents:Preface ixDoes analytical sociology practice what it preaches? An assessment ofanalytical sociology through the Merton award 1Gianluca ManzoPART 1 THEORETICAL CONVERSATIONS1 Understanding the Coleman boat 49Petri Ylikoski2 Analytical sociology, analytic philosophy and analytical Marxism 64Daniel Little3 Analytical sociology and its lesser-known antecedents:structural individualism in European sociology 80Werner Raub4 Analytical sociology and complexity research 100Michael Mäs5 Analytical sociology and social stratification research 119Carlo Barone6 Analytical sociology and critical realism 135Francesco Di Iorio and Francisco J. León-Medina7 Analytical sociology and cultural sociology 155Filippo Barbera8 Analytical sociology and pragmatism 170Matthew NortonPART 2 PIVOTAL CONCEPTS AND MECHANISMS9 Action 186Clemens Kroneberg and Andreas Tutic10 Interactions 204Michael Mäs11 Structure 220Emily Erikson and Eric Feltham12 Norms 233Pierre Demeulenaere13 Coupled contexts 249Filippo Barbera and Nicola Negri14 Contingency and randomness: a modal approach 264Ivan Ermakoff15 Cumulative advantage 286Freda B. Lynn and Hannah W. Espy16 Network amplification 308Filiz Garip and Mario D. Molina17 Complex contagions 321Damon CentolaPART 3 PIVOTAL METHODS18 Archival data 337Katharina Burgdorf and Henning Hillmann19 Digital data and methods 352Viktoria Spaiser20 Advances in mediation analysis 364Kinga Makovi and Christopher Winship21 Experiments 392Giuseppe A. Veltri22 Game-theoretic models 414Wojtek Przepiorka23 Network mechanisms and network models 432Christoph Stadtfeld and Viviana Amati24 Agent-based computational models 453Andreas Flache and Carlos A. de Matos Fernandes25 The many model approach 474Scott E. PageCoda—The past and future of analytical sociology 490Peter HedströmIndex 506

‘Analytical Sociology emerged as a distinct area of Sociology around the turn of the millennium. Twenty years later, the Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology provides an opportunity to assess what it has achieved and what its prospects are. The editor and contributing authors are well known analytical sociologists and their chapters provide authoritative overviews of a range of fascinating and important topics. Not only professional sociologists but anyone interested in the social sciences will profit greatly from reading this comprehensive and stimulating book.’