The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology

by Peter Bearman

Book Overview

Analytical sociology is a strategy for understanding the social world. It is concerned with explaining important social facts such as network structures, patterns of residential segregation, typical beliefs, cultural tastes, and common ways of acting. It explains such facts not merely by relating them to other social facts, but by detailing in clear and precise ways the mechanisms through which the social facts were brought about. Making sense of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199587450
• ISBN13: 9780199587452
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 796 Pages
• Weight: 3.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.8" x 9.6"