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Author_Dietrich Rueschemeyer
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Causality
Centrism
Cognition
Collective action
Colonialism
Common good
Comparative research
Consent of the governed
Consideration
Counterhegemony
Critique
Cultural hegemony
Democratic consolidation
Deviance (sociology)
Egotism
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Explanation
Externality
Formal organization
Gender role
Grand theory
Heuristic
Historical institutionalism
Ideal type
Idealization
Identity (social science)
Ideology
Imperialism
Inference
Institution
Labor theory of value
Mind control
Modernity
Motivation
Neoliberalism
New institutionalism
Norm (social)
Opportunism
Path dependence
Political science
Politics
Precedent
Prediction
Preventive action
Principal-agent problem
Principle
Rational choice institutionalism
Rational choice theory
Self-interest
Shame
Slippery slope
Social actions
Social class
Social inequality
Social movement
Social reality
Social science
Social structure
Social theory
Society
Sociocultural evolution
Spontaneous order
Subversion
Suggestion
Symbolic power
Theory
Thick description
Utilitarianism
Weighting
Wishful thinking
Product details
- ISBN 9780691129594
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 23 Aug 2009
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The project of twentieth-century sociology and political science--to create predictive scientific theory--resulted in few full-scale theories that can be taken off the shelf and successfully applied to empirical puzzles. Yet focused "theory frames" that formulate problems and point to relevant causal factors and conditions have produced vibrant, insightful, and analytically oriented empirical research. While theory frames alone cannot offer explanation or prediction, they guide empirical theory formation and give direction to inferences from empirical evidence. They are also responsible for much of the progress in the social sciences. In Usable Theory, distinguished sociologist Dietrich Rueschemeyer shows graduate students and researchers how to construct theory frames and use them to develop valid empirical hypotheses in the course of empirical social and political research. Combining new ideas as well as analytic tools derived from classic and recent theoretical traditions, the book enlarges the rationalist model of action by focusing on knowledge, norms, preferences, and emotions, and it discusses larger social formations that shape elementary forms of action.
Throughout, Usable Theory seeks to mobilize the implicit theoretical social knowledge used in everyday life. * Offers tools for theory building in social and political research * Complements the rationalist model of action with discussions of knowledge, norms, preferences, and emotions * Relates theoretical ideas to problems of methodology * Situates elementary forms of action in relation to larger formations * Combines new ideas with themes from classic and more recent theories
Dietrich Rueschemeyer is professor emeritus of sociology at Brown University and a research professor at Brown's Watson Institute for International Studies. He is the author of "Power and the Division of Labor" and the coeditor of "Bringing the State Back In", among many other books.
