Change, Growth, and Irreversibility

Carlsson, Gösta

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“…Macro and micro perspectives can be adopted as strategies or approaches to undertake community development programmes. The micro perspective will analyze 'attitudes and actions of small decision units, such as individuals, households, or firms' (Carlsson, 1968). Related to community development programs, the micro perspective focuses more on the individual level as the main focus and objective of development programs.…”

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“…In contrast to the micro perspective, the macro perspective focuses more on the structural level as a central problem of community development. The macro perspective task is 'to investigate phenomena that cannot be distributed among individuals or which appear as average or aggregate values for groups or populations (Carlsson, 1968). This level consists of the state, institutions, and privileged individuals or groups.…”

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Designing a Safe and Friendly Environment for Women and Children in Rural Community

Chawa,

Moch Hisyam Putra,

Ucca Arawindha

et al. 2024

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The need to build a safe and friendly environment has developed to respond to the increasing number of vulnerable issues which have been faced by children and women. Nevertheless, strategies to build a safe and friendly environment in rural areas are rarely discussed. This study outlined the macro perspective which considers structural and cultural change as a strategy to design a positive environment for women and children in the village. This perspective is adopted due to the fact that the places where women and children live, either in city or rural areas could become the factors causing women and children to live in a vulnerable environment. This design consists of two aspects which are the building of an institutional network and program recommendations. The implementation of an institutional network requires three principles or strategies which are participation, integration between women and children development programs, and involve various parties or community organizations including village government, professionals, scholars, as well as formal dan informal groups which are formed by rural community members, as facilitators and volunteers in the development programs. All these principles should be adopted to undertake program recommendations to meet the rights of children in health, education, legal advice, security, and peace.

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Designing a Safe and Friendly Environment for Women and Children in Rural Community

Chawa,

Moch Hisyam Putra,

Ucca Arawindha

et al. 2024

Sodality

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“…(2) distributions and aggregate patterns such as spatial distributions and inequalities; (3) topologies of networks that describe relationships among the members of the collectivity; and (4) formal and informal rules that constrain the actions of the members of the collectivity. For a similar definition, see Carlsson (1968). 3 Space limitations do not allow for a discussion of other notions of what "explaining" is all about.…”

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Studying Mechanisms To Strengthen Causal Inferences In Quantitative Research

Hedström

2009

The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology

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This article emphasizes various ways by which the study of mechanisms can make quantitative research more useful for causal inference. It concentrates on three aspects of the role of mechanisms in causal and statistical inference: how an understanding of the mechanisms at work can improve statistical inference by guiding the specification of the statistical models to be estimated; how mechanisms can strengthen causal inferences by improving our understanding of why individuals do what they do; and how mechanism-based models can strengthen causal inferences by showing why, acting as they do, individuals bring about the social outcomes they do. There has been a surge of interest in mechanism-based explanations, in political science as well as in sociology. Most of this work has been vital and valuable in that it has sought to clarify the distinctiveness of the approach and to apply it empirically.

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“…As the term is used here, the «social» refers to collective properties that are not definable for a single member of the collectivity (see also Carlsson 1968). Important examples of such phenomena include: -typical actions, beliefs, desires etc.…”

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Explaining Social Change: An Analytical Approach

Hedström¹

2006

PapRevSoc

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Analytical sociology is a middle-range approach to sociological theorizing which seeks to develop precise and realistic action-based explanations of various social phenomena. At the heart of the analytical approach is the idea that acceptable explanations must detail the mechanisms through which the phenomena to be explained were brought about. In this article I discuss the most important elements of this approach and I try to illustrate the various components involved in an explanation of social change. The analytical approach adopted here seeks to closely integrate mechanism-based theories of action and interaction, and agent-based computational modelling. The article is organized in the following way: first I present the guiding ideas behind the mechanisms approach. Second I discuss various mechanisms of action and interaction to illustrate what it is all about. Third I use a socalled agent-based model for illustrating how one can link individual-level mechanisms to social outcomes. Fourth I show how important it is to empirically calibrate these types of models. And fifth, and finally, I round it all up with some concluding remarks. Resumen. Explicando el cambio social: un enfoque analíticoLa sociología analítica es una aproximación a la teorización social «de alcance intermedio» que persigue desarrollar explicaciones precisas, realistas y basadas en la acción acerca de diversos fenómenos sociales. En el núcleo del enfoque analítico se encuentra la idea de que las explicaciones aceptables deben detallar los mecanismos a través de los cuales se produjeron los fenómenos a explicar. En este artículo discuto los elementos más importantes de este enfoque e intento ilustrar los diversos componentes que integran la explicación del cambio social. El enfoque analítico adoptado aquí busca integrar estrechamente las teorías de la acción y la interacción basadas en mecanismos con los modelos computacionales basados en agentes. El artículo se organiza de la siguiente manera: primero, presento las ideas-guía que subyacen al enfoque de los mecanismos. Segundo, discuto varios mecanismos de acción e interacción con objeto de ilustrar cómo funciona el enfoque. Tercero, utilizo un modelo basado en la agencia para ilustrar cómo pueden vincularse los mecanismos de nivel individual con los * This paper draws extensively on my book Dissecting the Social: On the Principles of Analytical Sociology (Cambridge University Press, 2005). The empirical analyses reported in the latter part of the paper are the result of collaborative work with Yvonne Åberg at Nuffield College. The research has in part been financed with a grant from the NEST/Path Finder initiative of the European Community (MMCOMNET).

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Change, Growth, and Irreversibility

Cited by 16 publications

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Designing a Safe and Friendly Environment for Women and Children in Rural Community

Designing a Safe and Friendly Environment for Women and Children in Rural Community

Studying Mechanisms To Strengthen Causal Inferences In Quantitative Research

Explaining Social Change: An Analytical Approach

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