This thought-provoking and ambitious book is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means to "explain" something in the social sciences. This paperback edition includes a new preface, in which Martin connects The Explanation of Social Action to deep neural networks that are important to the study of artificial intelligence and to the development of computational social science.
This thought-provoking and ambitious book is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means to "explain" something in the social sciences. This paperback edition includes a new preface, in which Martin connects The Explanation of Social Action to deep neural networks that are important to the study of artificial intelligence and to the development of computational social science.
John Levi Martin is Florence Borchert Bartling Professor of Sociology at The University of Chicago. He is also the author of Thinking Through Theory and Social Structures, which was awarded the 2010 Theory Prize from the American Sociological Association.
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Preface to the Paperback Edition Preface Chapter 1-Why Questions? What Explanations? Chapter 2-Causality and Persons Chapter 3-Authority and Experience Chapter 4-The Grid of Perception Chapter 5-Action In and On a World Chapter 6-A Social Aesthetics Chapter 7-Valence and Habit Chapter 8-Fields and Games Chapter 9-Explanations Explained References Index
Preface to the Paperback Edition Preface Chapter 1-Why Questions? What Explanations? Chapter 2-Causality and Persons Chapter 3-Authority and Experience Chapter 4-The Grid of Perception Chapter 5-Action In and On a World Chapter 6-A Social Aesthetics Chapter 7-Valence and Habit Chapter 8-Fields and Games Chapter 9-Explanations Explained References Index
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