List of Figures ................................................ ix
List of Tables ................................................ xii
About the Contributors ........................................ xiv
PART I FOUNDATIONS
1 What is Analytical Sociology All About? An Introductory
Essay ........................................................ 3
Peter Hedström and Peter Bearman
2 Analytical Sociology and Theories of the Middle Range ....... 25
Peter Hedström and Lars Udehn
PART II SOCIAL COGS AND WHEELS
3 Emotions .................................................... 51
Jon Elster
4 Beliefs ..................................................... 72
Jens Rydgren
5 Preferences ................................................. 94
Jeremy Freese
6 Opportunities .............................................. 115
Trond Petersen
7 Heuristics ................................................. 140
Daniel G. Goldstein
8 Signaling .................................................. 168
Diego Gambetta
9 Norms ...................................................... 195
Jon Elster
10 Trust ...................................................... 218
Karen S. Cook and Alexandra Gerbasi
PART III SOCIAL DYNAMICS
11 Social Dynamics from the Bottom Up: Agent-based Models
of Social Interaction ...................................... 245
Michael Macy and Andreas Flache
12 Segregation Dynamics ....................................... 269
Elizabeth Bruch and Robert Mare
13 Self-Fulfilling Prophecies ................................. 294
Michael Biggs
14 Social Influence: The Puzzling Nature of Success in
Cultural Markets ........................................... 315
Matthew J. Salganik and Duncan J. Watts
15 The Contagiousness of Divorce .............................. 342
Yvonne Åberg
16 Matching ................................................... 365
Katherine Stovel and Christine Fountain
17 Collective Action .......................................... 391
Delia Baldassarri
18 Conditional Choice ......................................... 419
Meredith Rolfe
19 Network Dynamics ........................................... 447
James Moody
20 Threshold Models of Social Influence ....................... 475
Duncan J. Watts and Peter Dodds
21 Time and Scheduling ........................................ 498
Christopher Winship
22 Homophily and the Focused Organization of Ties ............. 521
Scott Feld and Bernard Grofman
23 Status ..................................................... 544
Joel Podolny and Freda Lynn
24 Dominance Hierarchies ...................................... 566
Ivan Chase and W. Brent Lindquist
25 Conflict ................................................... 592
Stathis Kalyvas
PART IV PERSPECTIVES FROM OTHER FIELDS AND APPROACHES
26 Game Theory ................................................ 619
Richard Breen
27 Experiments ................................................ 639
Iris Bohnet
28 Surveys .................................................... 666
Hannah Brückner
29 Analytic Ethnography ....................................... 688
Diane Vaughan
30 Historical Sociology ....................................... 712
Karen Barkey
Name Index .................................................... 734
Subject Index ................................................. 751
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