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Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences

Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences

by JonElster (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

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This book is an expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed volume Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. In twenty-six succinct chapters, Jon Elster provides an account of the nature of explanation in the social sciences. He offers an overview of key explanatory mechanisms in the social sciences, relying on hundreds of examples and drawing on a large variety of sources - psychology, behavioral economics, biology, political science, historical writings, philosophy and fiction. Written in accessible and jargon-free language, Elster aims at accuracy and clarity while eschewing formal models. In a provocative conclusion, Elster defends the centrality of qualitative social sciences in a two-front war against soft (literary) and hard (mathematical) forms of obscurantism.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 484
 Edition: 2Rev Ed
 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 30 Apr 2007
ISBN 10: 0521777445
ISBN 13: 9780521777445
Book Overview: This book is an expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences.

Media Reviews
...contains many interesting puzzles and examples, and excellent elementary discussions of the major concepts of the social sciences...a treasure trove of suitable and interesting case-studies and examples... --Dean Rickles, University of Sydney: Philosophy in Review
Author Bio
Jon Elster is Professor and Chaire de Rationalite et Sciences Sociales at the College de France. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, he is a recipient of fellowships from The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation, among many others. Dr Elster has taught at the University of Chicago and Columbia University and has held visiting professorships at many universities in the United States and in Europe. He is the author and editor of thirty-four books, most recently Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective, Elementary Social Science from an Advanced Standpoint, and Retribution and Restitution in the Transition to Democracy.