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Explaining and Understanding by Answering ‘Why’ and ‘How’ Questions: A Programmatic Introduction to the Special Issue Social Mechanisms

  • Ulf Tranow , Tilo Beckers and Dominik Becker
From the journal Analyse & Kritik
https://doi.org/10.1515/auk-2016-0102
Online erschienen: 2016-5-18
Erschienen im Druck: 2016-5-1

© 2016 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

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Analyse & Kritik
Analyse & Kritik
Volume 38 Issue 1

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Explaining and Understanding by Answering ‘Why’ and ‘How’ Questions: A Programmatic Introduction to the Special Issue Social Mechanisms
Part I. Explanatory and Analytical: Understanding the Contexts, Core, and Collective Outcomes of Action
Social Mechanisms as Special Cases of Explanatory Sociology: Notes toward Systemizing and Expanding Mechanism-based Explanation within Sociology
Social Mechanisms of Corruption: Analytical Sociology and Its Applicability to Corruption Research
Neighbourhood Effects: Lost in Transition?
Part II. Bridging the Gap with Quantitative Survey Research
Social Mechanisms in Norm-relevant Situations: Explanations for Theft by Finding in High-cost, and Low-cost Situation
Social Mechanisms and Empirical Research in the Field of Sociology of the Family: The Case of Separation and Divorce
Contextualizing Cognitive Consonance by a Social Mechanisms Explanation: Moderators of Selective Exposure in Media Usage
Part III. Experiments, Agent-Based Modeling, and Mixed Methods
The Use of Field Experiments to Study Mechanisms of Discrimination
Rational Laziness - When Time Is Limited, Supply Abundant, and Decisions Have to Be Made
How the Mechanism of Dynamic Representation Affects Policy Change and Stability
Opening the Black Box. How the Study of Social Mechanisms Can Benefit from the Use of Explanatory Mixed Methods
A Methodological Outlook on Causal Identification and Empirical Methods for the Analysis of Social Mechanism
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