Generative Mechanisms Transforming the Social Order

Foreword.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Other Conceptions of Generative Mechanisms and Ours; Margaret S. Archer.- Part I. Conceptualising Mechanisms.- Chapter 2. Causal Mechanisms: Lessons from the Life Sciences; Philip Gorski.- Chapter 3. Mechanisms and Models; Some Examples from International Relations; Colin Wright.- Chapter 4. Social Mechanisms and Their Feedbacks; Pierpaolo Donati.- Part II. Venturing Morphogenetic Mechanisms.- Chapter 5. ''Mechanisms'' of the Build-Up of Information Society; Wolfgang Hofkirchner.- Chapter 6. Body Captors and Network Profiles: A Neo-Structural Note on Digitalized Social Control and Morphogenesis; Emmanuel Lazega.- Chapter 7. How Agency is Transformed in the Course of Social Transformation: Don't Forget the Double Morphogenesis; Margaret S. Archer.- Chapter 8. Turbulence and Relational Conjunctures: The Emergence of Morphogenic Environments; Andrea Maccarini.- Part III. Mechanisms and Morphostasis: Power of Life and Death.- Chapter 9. Why Don't Things Change? The Matter of Morphostasis; Douglas V. Porpora.- Chapter 10. The Modern Corporation: The Site of a Mechanism (of Global Social Change) that is Out-of-Control; Tony Lawson.- Chapter 11. Death Contested: Morphonecrosis and Conflicts of Interpretation; Ismael Al-Amoudi and John Latsis.