Handbook of Sociological Science. Contributions to Rigorous Sociology

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Front Matter Copyright Contents Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Rigorous sociology Part I Research programs 2. Order from chaos: sociology as a population science 3. Analytical sociology 4. Computational approaches in rigorous sociology: agent-based computational modeling and computational social science 5. Stochastic network modeling as generative social science 6. Rational choice sociology: heuristic potential, applications, and limitations Part II New and ongoing developments in selected fields 7. Cultural capital and educational inequality: an assessment of the state of the art 8. Integration in migration societies 9. Social networks: effects and formation 10. Gender inequality, households, and work 11. Validation strategies in historical sociology (and beyond) 12. Rigorous ethnography 13. Evolution, biology, and society 14. Sociogenomics: theoretical and empirical challenges of integrating molecular genetics into sociological thinking Part III Methods 15. Causal inference with observational data 16. Longitudinal designs and models for causal inference 17. Experimental sociology Part IV Rigorous sociology in action: showcases 18. Explaining educational differentials: towards a formal rational action theory 19. ‘Explaining educational differentials’ revisited: an evaluation of rigorous theoretical foundations and empirical findings 20. Structural holes and good ideas 21. Network mechanisms in innovation: borrowing and sparking ideas around structural holes 22. Experimental study of inequality and unpredictability in an artificial cultural market 23. Self-correcting dynamics in social influence processes Part V Further perspectives 24. The climate crisis: what sociology can contribute 25. Roots of sociology as a science: some history of ideas 26. How to increase reproducibility and credibility of sociological research Index