Revisiting General Theory in Historical Sociology.

This article revisits the debate over general theory in historical sociology with the goal of clarifying the use of this kind of theory in empirical research. General theories are defined as postulates about causal agents and causal mechanisms that are linked to empirical analysis through bridging a...

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Publicado en:Social Forces (University of North Carolina Press) Vol. 83; no. 2; pp. 459 - 490
Autor principal: Mahoney, James
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / UK Dec2004
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