Invisible codes : essays on generative mechanism /
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| Author / Creator: | Cherkaoui, Mohamed. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Bardwell Press ; [Paris] : Groupe d'étude des méthodes de l'analyse sociologique, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), c2005. |
| Description: | xii, 183 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | GEMAS studies in social analysis |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6270981 |
| Summary: | Invisible Codes is a path-breaking book about the concept of social or generative mechanisms, of which an early example is Adam Smith's idea of the 'invisible hand'. It deals with a problem long evident in sociological explanation, the 'macro-micro' dilemma. Professor Cherkaoui deploys a series of studies that deal with issues such as the causes of the French revolution of 1789, the persistence of social inequalities in education, and Max Weber's Protestant Ethic thesis. In each case he is concerned with understanding how both classical and contemporary sociologists construct explanatory schemas that aim to integrate the macrosociological and the microsociological levels. His aim is to construct a research strategy based around the principles of methodological individualism for understanding macro phenomena. Mohamed Cherkaoui argues that transitions between these levels are best seen through a modelling of generative mechanisms, |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 183 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0954868323 9780954868321 |