Constructing social theories
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PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
The Status of Explanations Proposed
4
Empirical Derivations from Explanations
5
The Development of the Book
6
Concluding Comments
12
CHAPTER TWO
THE LOGIC OF SCIENTIFIC INFERENCE
15
I
/
Fundamental Forms of Scientific Inference
15
Theoretical and Empirical Statements
15
Testing Theories with Observations
17
ix
X
CONTENTS
Multiple Tests of Theories
18
The Fundamental Criterion of a Strong Test
of Theory
20
Two Very General Alternative Theories:
Statistical Inference
23
The Crucial Experiment
24
II
/
The Structure of Causal Theories
28
Definition of Variables
28
Definition of Causal Laws
31
Observation in Support of Causal Theories
32
III
/
Scientific Concepts
38
Change of Concepts as Theories Change
38
Conceptualization of Variables
41
Type-Concepts
43
Types as a Convenience in Talking About
Interaction Effects
45
IV
/
Levels of Generality in Social Theory
47
An Outline of Levels of Generality
48
Levels of Critiques
50
V
/
Conclusions
53
CHAPTER THREE
COMPLEX CAUSAL STRUCTURES: DEMOGRAPHIC,
FUNCTIONAL, AND HISTORICIST EXPLANATIONS
OF SOCIAL PHENOMENA
57
I
/
Demographic Explanations of Social Phenomena
60
The Simplest Integrated Demographic Theory:
Population Growth with Negligible Reproductive
Cycles
62
A More Complex Integrated Demographic Theory
64
Incomplete or Open Demographic Explanations:
Rates, Quantities, and Proportions
69
Demographic Explanation Summarized
78
CONTENTS Xl
II
/
Functional Causal Imagery
80
Indications for the Use of Functional Imagery
82
Types of Social Selection Processes
85
The Logic of Functional Explanation
87
A Comment on the Conservative Nature
of Functional Explanation
91
Marxian Functionalism
:
Functional Arguments in a
System of Unequal Power
93
Summary
98
Ш
/
Historicist Causal Imagery
101
The Causal Structure of Historicist Explanations
103
Survivals and Functional Explanations
104
Empirical Derivations from Functional Historicism
107
Institutions and Historicist Explanations
107
Summary of Empirical Derivations from
Institutional-Historicist Theories
117
Historical Causes in Institutional-Historicist
Explanations
118
Institutional and Functional Historicism
118
Sunk Costs and Historicist Explanations
120
The Conditions of the Permanence of Resources
121
The Historical Sources of Sunk Costs
123
Micro-historicism and Cohort Analysis
125
IV
/
The Problem of the Choice of Variables
in Causal Explanations
129
technical appendix
то
chapter three
/
The Linear
Directed Graph Approach to Complex Causal Structures
130
The Basic Idea of a Linear Graph
131
Chain or Cascade Graphs
132
Reduction of More Complex Graphs
133
Loops in Linear Graphs
135
The Relations Between Tensions and Homeostasis
in Functional Structures
136
XU CONTENTS
The Relation
Between
Tension
and Structure
Activity
139
A
Formal
Representation of Marxian Functionalism
141
Loops Not Touching the Causal Path
143
The General Solution for Graph Transmittance
147
Conclusion
148
CHAPTER FOUR
THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF POWER PHENOMENA
149
I
/
Rights in Things and Rights in Persons
155
Individual Powers
155
Corporate Powers
157
II
/
Legitimacy of Powers
158
The Nesting of Power
158
Doctrines of Legitimacy
160
A Concept of Legitimacy
162
III
/
An Information Conception of Power
163
Decisions and Information
163
Prices in Markets as Information
165
Features of Price Systems
* 166
Situational Variations in Power
169
The Logical Structure of Information Concepts
171
IV
/
Political Incorporation
173
Political Isolation and Incorporation
173
The Components of Political Access
174
The Incorporation of the German Proletariat
176
The Construction of a Concept of Incorporation
177
Some Difficulties
178
The Logical Structure of the Concept
180
V
/
Institutions and Institutional Integration
181
Values and Power
181
A Correlation Concept of Institutions
182
CONTENTS
ХІІІ
Institutional Areas and Rank-related Power
184
Institutional Conflict
186
The Logical Structure of the Concept of Institutions
188
VI
/
The Creation of Organizations
188
The Dispersion of Powers Needed by Projects
188
Proposals and the Assembly of Powers
189
Feasible Coalitions
193
Forming Coalitions
194
The Logical Structure of Feasible Sets
196
VII
/
Conclusions
198
CHAPTER FIVE
THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
201
I
/
The Basic Logical Form of Environmental
Explanations
202
An Example: Elections and Consensus
202
A Formal Statement of Environmental Effects
204
II
/
Environmental Psychological Effects
205
Group Culture and Individual Attitudes
205
Refining the Mapping Variable
206
Identifying Group Cultures
207
III
/
The Demography of Opportunity
209
The Structural Determinants of Vacant Positions
209
The Opportunity of Individuals
210
Opportunity in Bureaucracies
211
Demographic Predictors of Training
212
IV
/
Aspiration as a Mapping Variable
214
Sex Variation in Aspirations
214
Rebellion and Aspiration
214
XIV CONTENTS
V
/
Geopolitical Concepts and Military Vulnerability
216
The Territorial Aspect of Power
216
The Causes of Vulnerability
218
Summed Vulnerability
221
Mapping Vulnerabilities
223
Derived Geopolitical Concepts
223
Some Applications of the Conceptual Apparatus
227
The Logic of Potential Concepts
230
VI
/
Conclusions
231
CHAPTER SIX
CONCEPTS ABOUT THE STRUCTURE OF ACTIVITIES
233
I
/
The Structure of Attention
237
Spatial Aspects of Attention Regulation
237
Causal Significance of Monopoly of Focus
of Attention
239
The Temporal Size** of a Group and Group
Influence
240
Aggregate Effects of Group Activity
on the Environment t
242
The Schedule and Agenda of Group Attention
243
Power and Agenda-making in Groups
of Different Structure
244
The Logical Structure of Attention Concepts
245
II
/
Activities Concepts Built on the Variance
248
The Significance of Variability
248
The Logical Structure of Variance-related Concepts
264
III
/
Space-related Concepts and the Ecological Analysis
of Activities
265
Space and the Causal Connection Between Activities
265
The General Concept of External Effects
269
Types of External Effects
270
CONTENTS
XV
General Concept-forming Strategy for External
Effects
277
Networks, Nodes, and Commerce: Some Empirical
Food for Thought
278
Conceptual Formulations of Nodal Concepts
281
General Strategies for Concepts on Networks
288
Concluding Comments
290
ENVOY
293
INDEX
295
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