26: Coda - The past and future of analytical sociology
In this chapter, I reflect on how the field of analytical sociology has developed since the late 1990s. I discuss briefly the birth of analytical sociology, what motivated its emergence, and what its most essential characteristics are. Thereafter, and in more detail, I consider a set of topics that...
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