Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences - Couverture souple

Elster, Jon

 
9780521777445: Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521777445 ISBN 13 : 9780521777445
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This book is an expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed volume Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. In twenty-six succinct chapters, Jon Elster provides an account of the nature of explanation in the social sciences. He offers an overview of key explanatory mechanisms in the social sciences, relying on hundreds of examples and drawing on a large variety of sources - psychology, behavioral economics, biology, political science, historical writings, philosophy and fiction. Written in accessible and jargon-free language, Elster aims at accuracy and clarity while eschewing formal models. In a provocative conclusion, Elster defends the centrality of qualitative social sciences in a two-front war against soft (literary) and hard (mathematical) forms of obscurantism.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jon Elster is Professor and Chaire de Rationalite et Sciences Sociales at the College de France. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, he is a recipient of fellowships from The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation, among many others. Dr Elster has taught at the University of Chicago and Columbia University and has held visiting professorships at many universities in the United States and in Europe. He is the author and editor of thirty-four books, most recently Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective, Elementary Social Science from an Advanced Standpoint, and Retribution and Restitution in the Transition to Democracy.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521777445
ISBN 13 
9780521777445
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Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
498
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9780521771795: Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences

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ISBN 10 :  052177179X ISBN 13 :  9780521771795
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2007
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