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1. Titelei
2. Contents
3. Explaining and Understanding by Answering ‘Why’ and ‘How’ Questions: A Programmatic Introduction to the Special Issue Social Mechanisms
4. Part I. Explanatory and Analytical: Understanding the Contexts, Core, and Collective Outcomes of Action
5. Social Mechanisms as Special Cases of Explanatory Sociology: Notes toward Systemizing and Expanding Mechanism-based Explanation within Sociology
6. Social Mechanisms of Corruption: Analytical Sociology and Its Applicability to Corruption Research
7. Neighbourhood Effects: Lost in Transition?
8. Part II. Bridging the Gap with Quantitative Survey Research
9. Social Mechanisms in Norm-relevant Situations: Explanations for Theft by Finding in High-cost, and Low-cost Situation
10. Social Mechanisms and Empirical Research in the Field of Sociology of the Family: The Case of Separation and Divorce
11. Contextualizing Cognitive Consonance by a Social Mechanisms Explanation: Moderators of Selective Exposure in Media Usage
12. Part III. Experiments, Agent-Based Modeling, and Mixed Methods
13. The Use of Field Experiments to Study Mechanisms of Discrimination
14. Rational Laziness - When Time Is Limited, Supply Abundant, and Decisions Have to Be Made
15. How the Mechanism of Dynamic Representation Affects Policy Change and Stability
16. Opening the Black Box. How the Study of Social Mechanisms Can Benefit from the Use of Explanatory Mixed Methods
17. A Methodological Outlook on Causal Identification and Empirical Methods for the Analysis of Social Mechanism
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