Social explanations of crime

As market relations become more pervasive, so the classical sociological issue of the tension between ‘economic’ and ‘social’ explanations becomes more salient than ever. Michel Callon has proposed that the Actor-Network Theory (A-NT) developed in science and technology studies provides a useful approach to this tension. In this article we outline his innovatively traditional ‘market test’ of A-NT, and then test and illustrate it through a contract between an Australian company and a transport logistics consortium that it fostered under changing conditions in its market. We exemplify Callon’s case for the co-emergence of calculative and cultural effects, and conclude that business in action is a promising research site for their global reconfiguration.

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Immigration and mental health: Local research and social explanations

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies ◽

10.1080/1369183x.1981.9975688 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 256-262 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Peter Hitch

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Explanations ◽

Local Research

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Demographic and Social Explanations of Variations in the White Refined Fertility Ratios

Fertility in Massachusetts from the Revolution to the Civil War ◽

10.1016/b978-0-12-722040-6.50013-5 ◽

1981 ◽

pp. 103-116

Author(s):

MARIS A. VINOVSKIS

Keyword(s):

Social Explanations

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Family Theory: Complementarity of Economic and Social Explanations

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences ◽

10.1016/b0-08-043076-7/02173-2 ◽

2001 ◽

pp. 5373-5378 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

R. Lesthaeghe

Keyword(s):

Family Theory ◽

Social Explanations

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Evolutionary social science beyond culture

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x06329081 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

pp. 356-356

Author(s):

Harold Kincaid

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Natural Selection ◽

Social Science ◽

Social Processes ◽

The Social ◽

Social Explanations ◽

The Common

Mesoudi et al.'s case can be improved by expanding to compelling selectionist explanations elsewhere in the social sciences and by seeing that natural selection is an instance of general selectionist process. Obstacles include the common use of extreme idealizations and optimality evidence, the copresence of nonselectionist social processes, and the fact that selectionist explanations often presuppose other kinds of social explanations.

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