Hannan / Le Mens / Hsu Concepts and Categories

Foundations for Sociological and Cultural Analysis
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54993-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: The Middle Range Series

A team of sociologists presents a groundbreaking model of concepts and categorization that can guide sociological and cultural analysis of a wide variety of social situations. Using this model, important yet commonplace phenomena such as routine buying decisions can be quantified in terms of the cognitive distance between concepts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hannan, Michael T.

Le Mens, Gaël

Hsu, Greta

Kovács, Balázs

Negro, Giacomo

Pólos, László

Pontikes, Elizabeth

Sharkey, Amanda J.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Verhaltensökonomik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Concepts in Sociological Analysis
Part I. Concepts and Spaces
2. Preliminaries
3. Semantic Space
4. Concepts as Probability Densities in Semantic Space
5. Conceptual Spaces: Domains and Cohorts
6. Expanding Spaces to Compare Concepts
7. Informativeness and Distinctiveness
Part II. Applying Concepts
8. Categories and Categorization
9. Free Categorization
10. Concepts, Perception, and Inference
Part III. Bridges to Sociological Application
11. Conceptual Ambiguity and Contrast
12. Valuation
Part IV. Concepts in Social Interaction
13. The Group Level: Conceptual and Extensional Agreement
14. Social Inference and Taken-for-Grantedness
15. Broadening the Scope of Application
Part V. Appendixes
Appendix A: Glossary of Technical Terms
Appendix B: Some Elemental First-Order Logic
Appendix C: Proofs
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hannan Michael T.:
Michael T. Hannan is The StrataCom Professor of Management in the Graduate School of Business and Professor of Sociology, Emeritus in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Stanford University and Professor of Organisation Theory at the Durham University Business School. He is the co-author of Logics of Organization Theory: Audiences, Codes, and Ecologies (2007), The Demography of Corporations and Industries (2000), and Dynamics of Organizational Populations: Density, Legitimation and Competition (1992).Michael T. Hannan is the StrataCom Professor of Management emeritus and professor emeritus of sociology at Stanford University and professor of organization theory at Durham University Business School.

Gaël Le Mens is professor of behavioral science in the Department of Economics and Business at Pompeu Fabra University.

Greta Hsu is professor of management at the University of California, Davis, Graduate School of Management.

Balázs Kovács is assistant professor of organizational behavior at the Yale University School of Management.

Giacomo Negro is professor of organization and management at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.

László Pólos is professor of organizational theory at Durham University Business School.

Elizabeth Pontikes is associate professor of organizations and strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Amanda J. Sharkey is associate professor of organizations and strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.