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Analytical Sociology and the Rest of Sociology |
Analytical Sociology: Appreciation and Ambivalence |
Analytical Sociology is a Research Strategy |
Analytical Sociology's Superfluous Revolution |
Can there Be Causal Effects on the Macro Level? |
Comment on Anton Hemerijck/1. Retrenchment Policies and the deficit of Social Europe |
Comment on Anton Hemerijck/2. Social Investment, a Problematic Concept with an Ambiguous Past |
Comment on Anton Hemerijck/3. More Europe, Not Less: Reversing the Long, Slow Decline of the European Social Model |
Comment on Anton Hemerijck/4. Making Social Investment Work |
Comment on Anton Hemerijck/5. The Quest for Social Investment Policies |
Full and Sketched Micro-foundations. The Odd Resurgence of a Dubious Distinction |
The Irreducibility of Cultural Structures |
Isaac Ariail Reed, Interpretation and Social Knowledge. On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011, 216 pp. |
Meso-Level Mechanisms and Micro-Level Foundation |
Monica W. Varsanyi (ed.), Taking Local Control. Immigration Policy Activism in U.S. Cities and States. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010, 308 pp. |
Nathalie Heinich and Roberta Shapiro (eds.), De l'artification. Enquête sur le passage à l'art. Paris: Éditions EHESS, 2012, 334 pp. |
On Analytical Sociology |
Patrick Aspers, Orderly Fashion. A Sociology of Markets. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010, 237 pp |
Pierpaolo Donati, Relational Sociology. A New Paradigm for the Social Sciences. London: Routledge, 2010, 272 pp. |
The Poet of Autonomy: Antonio Negri as a Social Theorist |
Presentation |
Response to Commentators |
Retrenchment, Redistribution, Capacitating Welfare Provision, and Institutional Coherence After The Eurozone's Austerity Reflex |
Rick Helmes-Hayes, Measuring the Mosaic. An Intellectual Biography of John Porter. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010, 588 pp. |
When Changing Welfare States and the Eurocrisis Meet |
The Whole and the Parts. Or: Is Analytical Sociology Analytical Enough about Sociology, and Itself? |
Benjamin Ginsberg, The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why it Matters. New York: Oxford University Press. 2011, 248 pp. |
Beyond the Sustainability of Exception. Setting Bounds on Biofuels |
Christian Borch, The Politics of Crowds: An Alternative History of Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 338 pp. |
Comment on Richard Swedberg/1. Surprise! Some Comments on Richard Swedberg's Peirce Paper |
Comment on Richard Swedberg/2. On Swedberg's Account of Theorizing |
Comment on Richard Swedberg/3. A Few Remarks on Musement and Abduction |
Comment on Richard Swedberg/4. On the Politics and Culture of Theorizing-as-Abduction |
Craig Calhoun (ed.), Robert K. Merton. Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science. New York: Columbia UP, 2010, xii + 320 pp. |
Democracy, Distinction and Power in Omnivorous Gourmet Food Culture. A Response to Shyon Baumann and Josée Johnston |
Democracy vs. Distinction in Omnivorous Food Culture. Clarifications, Elaborations, and a Response to Therese Andrews |
Des Freedman and Daya Kishan Thussu (eds.), Media & Terrorism. Global perspectives. London: Sage, 2011, 336 pp. |
Distinction versus Exclusion in Gourmet Food Culture |
Eviatar Zerubavel, Ancestors and Relatives: Genealogy, Identity, and Community. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 240 pp. |
The Green Energy Transition. Sustainable Development or Ecological Modernization? |
Jeffrey K. Olick, Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi and Daniel Levy (eds.), The Collective Memory Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 528 pp. |
Karen Dubinsky, Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration across the Americas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010, 204 pp. |
The Link between Sustainable Tourism and Local Social Development. A Sociological Reassessment |
On Charles S. Peirce's Lecture "How to Theorize" (1903) |
Reassessing Sustainability. An Introduction |
Response to the Comments |
Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2011, 259 pp. |
Sustainability: A Wicked Problem |
Sustainability and a Sociology of Monsters |
The Sustainability of Biofuels. A Comparison of EU and US Policy Debates |
Sustainable Development. A Comment |
Tracey Heatherington, Wild Sardinia. Indigeneity and the Global Dreamtimes of Environmentalism. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2010, 314 pp. |
The Unexpected Consequences of Sustainability. Green Cities Between Innovation and Ecogentrification |
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Maternal Employment and Child Health. Global Issues and Policy Solutions. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2011, vi+215 pp. |
Aaron J. Martin, Young People and Politics. Political engagement in the Anglo-American democracies. London-New York: Routledge, 2012, xii+170 pp. |
Alessandro Orsini, "Anatomy of the Red Brigades: The Religious Mind-set of Modern Terrorists". Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011, 317 pp. |
Amy T. Schalet, "Not Under My Roof. Parents, Teens and the Culture of Sex". Chicago-London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011, 312 pp. |
Ash Amin, "Land of strangers". Cambridge: Polity, 2012, 200 pp. |
Ash Amin, "Lands of strangers". Cambridge: Polity, 2012, 200 pp. |
Author's Reply to Two Very Kind Reviews |
Comment on Giuseppe A. Micheli/1. Gestalt Switches in the Idea of Context: Some Informal Comments |
Comment on Giuseppe A. Micheli/2. |
A Depasteurization of Italy? Mediations of Consumption and the Enrollment of Consumers within the Raw-Milk Network |
Derek Robbins, "French Post-War Social Theory. International Knowledge Transfer". Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2012, 216 pp. |
Felia Allum, Francesca Longo, Daniela Irrera and Panos A. Kostakos (edited by), "Defining and Defying Organized Crime. Discourse, Perceptions and Reality". London-New York: Routledge, 2010, XIV-231 pp. |
Forms of Economic Discourse, the Crisis, and Financial Markets. Analysis and Research Perspectives From Actor Network Theory to Semiotics |
Frederick F. Wherry, "The Culture of Markets". Cambridge-Malden, MA: Polity, 2012, 158 pp. |
Gestalt Switches in the Idea of Context. A Macro Dimension of the World for Every Theory of Action |
Introduction to the Symposium |
Julian Go, "Patterns of Empire. The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 286 pp. |
Just a Box of Pills? When Pharmaceuticals Came to the Supermarket |
Large Topics and Hard Methodological Decisions |
Marco Schmitt, "Trennen und Verbinden. Soziologische Untersuchungen zur Theorie des Gedächtnisses", Wiesbaden: Vs Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2009, 366 pp. |
NPM Discourse, Testing, and the Selection of Head Teachers. Education Policy Innovation as a Collective Performation |
Once Upon a Text: an ANT Tale in Text Analysis |
Response to the Comments. Two Shortcuts to Be Strongly Advised Against |
Shirley A. Hill, "Families. A Social Class Perspective". Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2011, 184 pp. |
Transatlantic Entanglements |
Waste Valuation Performed by Socio-Technical Connections |