Analytical sociology and pragmatism

2021 ◽  
pp. 170-184
Author(s):  
Matthew Norton
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Sociology

Analytical Sociology

2014 ◽  
pp. 386-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hedström ◽  
Petri Ylikoski
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Sociology

Signaling

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Gambetta
Keyword(s):  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Signaling Theory ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Analytic Framework ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Thorstein Veblen ◽  
Analytical Sociology ◽  
Differential Costs

This article examines signaling theory as an element of analytical sociology, and particularly as an analytic framework for accounting for irrational behaviors. It first provides an overview of the basic principles of signaling theory, focusing on the distinction between signs and signals as well as the concepts of differential costs and differential benefits. It then considers various sources of signal costs, including receiver’s independent cost, receiver-dependent cost, and third party-dependent cost, along with multiple sources of cost and signals that cost nothing to honest signalers. It also takes a look at a number of applications for signaling theory and concludes with an assessment of the genealogy of the theory, from Thorstein Veblen and Marcel Mauss to Pierre Bourdieu, Michael Spence, and Alan Grafen.

Historical Sociology

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne Åberg
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Historical Institutionalism ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
Comparative Historical Analysis ◽  
Analytical Sociology ◽  
Historical Social Science

This article examines the different methods employed in historical sociology through which historical macro social outcomes are investigated — comparative, institutional, relational, and cultural — as well as the enduring tension revealed by the meso-level structures that often shape outcomes. It begins with a discussion of two major categories of historical sociology: comparative historical analysis, characterized by historical sociologists and political scientists who seek an explanation for large-scale processes, and the focus on institutionalism and networks in historical studies. It then presents examples of work in historical social science that have come closest to the requirements of analytical sociology. It also considers ways of bringing historical institutionalism and network analysis together and argues that an emphasis on analytic historical sociology can help specify the causality behind processes that have not been clearly interpreted or have been misinterpreted in historical, sociological, and culturally oriented studies.

Collective Action

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Rolfe
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Interpersonal Influence ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Formal Approach ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Analytical Sociology ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
The One

This article examines collective action, focusing on the role of social interactions, conflict, and the dynamics of interpersonal influence in shaping collective identities and interests. The discussion is based on the co-occurrence of individuals’ interest and group identity through a consistent course of action and begins with an overview of analytical models used to investigate extraordinary forms of collective action. The article then describes formal models and the problem of cooperation between self-interested actors, along with the notion of free-riding and the origin of shared interests and collective identities, paying attention to the importance of conflict, social networks, and interpersonal influence. It also explores the role of multiple levels of decision-making and actors’ consciousness in collective action before proposing a formal approach to collective action that is simultaneously less and more rational than the one currently employed in analytical sociology.

Analytical Sociology and Its Discontents

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Bortolini
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Sociology

scholarly journals Racionalumo problema sociologijoje (II)

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-69
Author(s):  
Algimantas Valantiejus
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Methodological Problem ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Scientific Objectivity ◽  
Naturalistic Epistemology ◽  
Contemporary Sociology ◽  
Scientific Philosophy ◽  
Analytical Sociology

Santrauka. Antroje straipsnio dalyje konkretinamos ir analizuojamos paralelės 1) tarp postempiristinės mokslo filosofijos ir postanalitinės sociologijos, 2) tarp epistemologijos sampratos natūralizavimo filosofijoje ir racionalumo sampratos pragmatizavimo sociologijoje. Teigiama, kad metodologinė racionalumo problema sociologijoje yra siauresnė epistemologinio santykio tarp filosofijos ir mokslo dalis. Analizuojant filosofinės nuostatos natūralizavimo šiuolaikinėje sociologijoje tendencijas skiriamos dvi – analitinė ir postanalitinė – pozicijos. Nagrinėjama normatyvinė santykio tarp racionalumo normų ir mokslinių objektyvumo kriterijų problema abiejose pozicijose. Pagrindiniai žodžiai: racionalumas, normatyvumas, natūralizmas, a priori problema, reliatyvizmas. Key words: rationality, normativity, naturalism, the problem of the a priori, relativism. ABSTRACT THE PROBLEM OF RATIONALITY IN SOCIOLOGY (II) The second part of the article aims to articulate and explicate the parallels between post-empiricist scientific philosophy and post-analytical sociology, and between the conception of naturalistic epistemology in philosophy and the conception of pragmatic rationality in sociology. The article argues that the methodological problem of rationality in sociology is the part of the larger epistemological relationship between philosophy and science. Normative relationship between the norms of rationality and the criteria of scientific objectivity is analyzed in two main perspectives of contemporary sociology – analytical and post-analytical.

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