Micro - Macro Links and Microfoundations in Sociology
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چکیده
The most interesting thing about this book is what it doesn't do. It is a collection of articles forming a special issue of the Journal of Mathematical Sociology . It presents approaches to the "Micro-Macro Link" (MML) featuring experimental (1), analytical (2), narrative (2) and simulation based (3) contributions all of which are interesting and well written. However, reading the whole book, it soon emerges that each approach interprets MML in its own way even in the light of the other contributions. The book thus has limited synthetic value. (The introduction has interesting aspects for example discussion of the "explanatory sociology" research programme that has probably been neglected since very few of the participants published in English but tends just to describe rather than draw together the diverse strands of relevant research.)
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