Handbook of sociological science: contributions to rigorous sociology

Contents:; INTRODUCTION; 1. Rigorous sociology 2; Werner Raub, Nan Dirk de Graaf, and Klarita Gerxhani; PART I RESEARCH PROGRAMS; 2. Order from chaos: sociology as a population science 21; Michelle Jackson; 3. Analytical sociology 38; Gianluca Manzo; 4. Computational approaches in rigorous sociology: agent-based computational; modeling and computational social science 57; Andreas Flache, Michael Mas, and Marijn A. Keijzer; 5. Stochastic network modeling as generative social science 73; Christian E.G. Steglich and Tom A.B. Snijders; 6. Rational choice sociology: heuristic potential, applications, and limitations 100; Andreas Diekmann; PART II NEW AND ONGOING DEVELOPMENTS IN SELECTED FIELDS; 7. Cultural capital and educational inequality: an assessment of the state of; the art 121; Mads Meier Jaeger; 8. Integration in migration societies 135; Frank Kalter; 9. Social networks: effects and formation 154; Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, and Werner Raub; 10. Gender inequality, households, and work 176; Eva Jaspers, Tanja van der Lippe, and Marie Evertsson; 11. Validation strategies in historical sociology (and beyond) 196; Ivan Ermakoff; 12. Rigorous ethnography 215; Federico Varese; 13. Evolution, biology, and society 232; Rosemary L. Hopcroft, Joseph Dippong, Hexuan Liu, and Rachel Kail; 14. Sociogenomics: theoretical and empirical challenges of integrating molecular; genetics into sociological thinking 250; Melinda C. Mills; PART III METHODS; 15. Causal inference with observational data 272; Richard Breen; 16. Longitudinal designs and models for causal inference 287; Markus Gangl; 17. Experimental sociology 309; Klarita Gerxhani and Luis Miller; PART IV RIGOROUS SOCIOLOGY IN ACTION: SHOWCASES; 18. Explaining educational differentials: towards a formal rational action; theory 325; Richard Breen and John H. Goldthorpe; 19. 'Explaining educational differentials' revisited: an evaluation of rigorous; theoretical foundations and empirical findings 356; Rolf Becker; 20. Structural holes and good ideas 372; Ronald S. Burt; 21. Network mechanisms in innovation: borrowing and sparking ideas around; structural holes 423; Balazs Vedres; 22. Experimental study of inequality and unpredictability in an artificial; cultural market 443; Matthew J. Salganik, Peter Sheridan Dodds, and Duncan J. Watts; 23. Self-correcting dynamics in social influence processes 446; Arnout van de Rijt; PART V FURTHER PERSPECTIVES; 24. The climate crisis: what sociology can contribute 475; Dingeman Wiertz and Nan Dirk de Graaf; 25. Roots of sociology as a science: some history of ideas 493; Thomas Voss; 26. How to increase reproducibility and credibility of sociological research 512; Katrin Auspurg and Josef Bru derl; Index 528