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Hedström, Peter, and Richard Swedberg (eds.). Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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Table of contents
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| Acknowledgments | ix |
| List of contributors | x |
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| 1. Social mechanisms: An introductory essay (Peter Hedstrom and Richard
Swedberg) | 1 |
| 2. Social mechanisms and social dynamics (Thomas Ñ Schelling)
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| 3. A plea for mechanisms (Jon Elster) | 45 |
| 4. Real virtuality (Gudmund Hernes) | 74 |
| 5. Concatenations of mechanisms (Diego Gambetta) | 102 |
| 6. Do economists use social mechanisms to explain? (Tyier Cowen) |
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| 7. Social mechanisms of dissonance reduction (Timur Kuran) | 147 |
| 8. Social mechanisms without black boxes (Raymond Boudon) | 172 |
| 9. Is sociological theory too grand for social mechanisms? (Axel van den
Berg) | 204 |
| 10. Theoretical mechanisms and the empirical study of social processes (Aage
B. Sørensen) | 238
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| 11. Monopolistic competition as a mechanism: Corporations, universities,
and nation-states in competitive fields (Arthur L. Stinchcombe) | 267 |
| 12. Rational imitation (Peter Hedström) | 306 |
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| Author index | 329 |
| Subject index | 334 |
