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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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The Status of Explanations | |
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Proposed Empirical Derivations from Explanations | |
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The Development of the Book | |
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Concluding Comments | |
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The Logic of Scientific Inference | |
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Fundamental Forms of Scientific Inference | |
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Theoretical and Empirical Statements | |
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Testing Theories with Observations | |
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Multiple Tests of Theories | |
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The Fundamental Criterion of a Strong Test of Theory | |
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Two Very General Alternative Theories: Statistical Inference | |
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The Crucial Experiment | |
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The Structure of Causal Theories | |
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Definition of Variables | |
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Definition of Causal Laws | |
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Observation in Support of Causal Theories | |
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Scientific Concepts | |
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Change of Concepts as Theories | |
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Change Conceptualization of Variables | |
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Type-Concepts | |
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Types as a Convenience in Talking | |
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About Interaction Effects | |
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Levels of Generality in Social Theory | |
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An Outline of Levels of Generality | |
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Levels of Critiques | |
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Conclusions | |
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Complex Causal Structures: Demographic, Functional, and Historicist Explanations of Social Phenomena | |
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Demographic Explanations of Social Phenomena | |
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The Simplest Integrated Demographic Theory: Population Growth with Negligible Reproductive Cycles | |
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A More Complex Integrated Demographic Theory | |
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Incomplete or Open Demographic Explanations: Rates, Quantities, and Proportions | |
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Demographic Explanation Summarized | |
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Functional Causal Imagery | |
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Indications for the Use of Functional Imagery | |
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Types of Social Selection Processes | |
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The Logic of Functional Explanation | |
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A Comment on the Conservative | |
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Nature of Functional Explanation | |
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Marxian Functionalism: Functional Arguments in a System of Unequal Power | |
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Summary | |
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Historicist Causal Imagery | |
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The Causal Structure of Historicist Explanations | |
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"Survivals" and Functional Explanations | |
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Empirical Derivations from Functional Historicism | |
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Institutions and Historicist Explanations | |
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Summary of Empirical Derivations from Institutional-Historicist Theories | |
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Historical Causes in Institutional-Historicist Explanations | |
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Institutional and Functional Historicism | |
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Sunk Costs and Historicist Explanations | |
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The Conditions of the Permanence of Resources | |
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The Historical Sources of Sunk Costs | |
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Micro-historicism and Cohort Analysis | |
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The Problem of the Choice of Variables in Causal Explanations | |
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Technical Appendix to Chapter Three / The Linear Directed Graph | |
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Approach to Complex Causal Structures | |
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The Basic Idea of a Linear Graph | |
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Chain or Cascade Graphs | |
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Reduction of More Complex Graphs | |
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Loops in Linear Graphs | |
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The Relations Between Tensions and Homeostasis in Functional Structures | |
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The Relation Between Tension and Structure Activity | |
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A Formal Representation of Marxian Functionalism | |
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Loops Not Touching the Causal Path | |
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The General Solution for Graph Transmittance | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Conceptualization of Power Phenomena | |
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Rights in Things and Rights in Persons | |
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Individual Powers | |
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Corporate Powers | |
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Legitimacy of Powers | |
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The Nesting of Power | |
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Doctrines of Legitimacy | |
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A Concept of Legitimacy | |
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An Information | |
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Conception of Power Decisions and Information | |
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Prices in Markets as Information | |
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Features of Price Systems | |
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Situational Variations in Power | |
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The Logical Structure of Information Concepts | |
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Political Incorporation | |
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Political Isolation and Incorporation | |
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The Components of Political Access | |
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The Incorporation of the German Proletariat | |
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The Construction of a Concept of Incorporation Some Difficulties | |
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The Logical Structure of the Concept | |
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Institutions and Institutional Integration Values and Power | |
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A Correlation Concept of Institutions | |
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Institutional Areas and Rank-related Power | |
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Institutional Conflict | |
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The Logical Structure of the Concept of Institutions | |
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The Creation of Organizations | |
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The Dispersion of Powers Needed by Projects | |
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Proposals and the Assembly of Powers | |
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Feasible Coalitions | |
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Forming Coalitions | |