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Christofer Edling

Christofer Edling

Professor

Christofer Edling

Analytical sociology in Tocqueville's Democracy in America

Författare

  • Christofer Edling
  • E. Hedstrom

Summary, in English

Analytical sociology seeks to explain complex social processes by carefully dissecting them and then bringing into focus their most important constituent components. It is through dissection and analytical abstractions that the important cogs and wheels of social processes are made visible and intelligible. By identifying some common features between Tocqueville's Democracy in America and contemporary analytical sociology, we argue that the explanatory approach that Tocqueville pursued in many respects is a forerunner to analytical sociology. These features are contrasted with those of other classical approaches in order to highlight the defining characteristics of Tocqueville's approach. One reason why Tocqueville is still worth reading, 200 years after his birth, is as an early example of the explanatory power of the analytical approach to sociology. However, the methodological and theoretical advances that sociology has undergone since the publication of Democracy in America makes it more interesting as a classic than as a useful source of reference for today's sociology students.

Publiceringsår

2005

Språk

Tyska

Sidor

511-522

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Berliner Journal für Soziologie

Volym

15

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

Ämne

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Nyckelord

  • sociology
  • sociologi
  • models

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0863-1808