Bearman Peter S. - The Oxford handbook of analytical sociology

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF

ANALYTICAL SOCIOLOGY

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF

Edited by
PETER HEDSTRM
and
PETER BEARMAN

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The Oxford handbook of analytical sociology/edited by
Peter Hedstrm and Peter Bearman.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 9780199215362
1. Sociology. 2. Sociology-Philosophy.
I. Hedstrm, Peter. II. Bearman, Peter.
HM585.0984 2009
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This book would not have come into existence without the generous support of several individuals and institutions. We wish to thank Fletcher Haulley at Columbia for his managerial and editorial work and for his careful attention to detail. We also want to thank the Yale School of Management for organizing one of the workshops at which drafts of the chapters were presented, the participants at these workshops for their valuable comments, and the Rockefeller Foundations Bellagio Center for providing peace and tranquility at a critical juncture. Finally we want to thank our home institutionsthe Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia and Nuffield College at Oxfordfor partial funding, and Dominic Byatt at Oxford University Press for the detailed feedback we have received from him throughout the project.

PETER HEDSTRM AND PETER BEARMAN

PETER HEDSTRM AND LARS UDEHN

JON ELSTER

JENS RYDGREN

JEREMY FREESE

TROND PETERSEN

DANIEL G. GOLDSTEIN

DIEGO GAMBETTA

JON ELSTER

KAREN S. COOK AND ALEXANDRA GERBASI

MICHAEL MACY AND ANDREAS FLACHE

ELIZABETH BRUCH AND ROBERT MARE

MICHAEL BIGGS

MATTHEW J. SALGANIK AND DUNCAN J. WATTS

YVONNE BERG

KATHERINE STOVEL AND CHRISTINE FOUNTAIN

DELIA BALDASSARRI

MEREDITH ROLFE

JAMES MOODY

DUNCAN J. WATTS AND PETER DODDS

CHRISTOPHER WINSHIP

SCOTT FELD AND BERNARD GROFMAN

JOEL PODOLNY AND FREDA LYNN

IVAN CHASE AND W. BRENT LINDQUIST

STATHIS KALYVAS

RICHARD BREEN

IRIS BOHNET

HANNAH BRCKNER

DIANE VAUGHAN

KAREN BARKEY

Yvonne berg is a Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Stockholm University. Her research focuses on large-scale population based social networks, especially family networks and complex overlapping networks, models of social interactions, and family demography.

Delia Baldassarri is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. She holds Ph.D.s in sociology from Columbia University and the University of Trento. Her work in the areas of social networks, collective behavior, political inequality, and economic development aims at capturing the attitudinal and structural bases of social integration and conflict. She is the author of a book on cognitive heuristics and political decision-making (The Simple Art of Voting), and has written articles on interpersonal influence, public opinion and political polarization, formal models of collective action, civil-society and inter-organizational networks.

Karen Barkey is Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. She studies state centralization/decentralization, state control, and social movements against states in the context of empires. Her research focuses primarily on the Ottoman Empire and recently on comparisons between Ottoman, Habsburg, and Roman empires. Her latest book is Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Peter Bearman is Director of the Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, the Cole Professor of Social Science, Codirector of the Health and Society Scholars Program, and an Associate Member of Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University. A recipient of the NIH Directors Pioneer Award in 2007, Bearman is currently investigating the social and environmental determinants of the autism epidemic. Current projects also include an ethnographic study of the funeral industry and, with support from the American Legacy Foundation, an investigation of the social and economic consequences of tobacco-control policy.

Michael Biggs is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Oxford. He studied at Victoria University of Wellington and Harvard University. His research has focused on social movements and political protest, addressing two theoretical puzzles. One is the volatility of collective protest: why a mass movement can emerge suddenly, appear powerful, and yet collapse quickly. The second puzzle is the use of self-inflicted suffering for political ends, as with hunger strikes and, most dramatically, with protest by self-immolation.

Iris Bohnet is Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Director of the Women and Public Policy Program, Associate Director of the Harvard Laboratory for Decision Science and a vice chair of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Zrich. A behavioral economist, combining insights from economics and psychology, her research focuses on decision-making, and on improving decision-making in organizations and society. In particular, she analyzes the causes and consequences of trust and employs experiments to study the role of gender and culture in decision-making and negotiation.