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Computational Social Science and the Search for Mechanisms

Analytical social science is a reinvigoration of the idea of social science being a search for social mechanisms, a return to an explanatory view of social science. Agent-based modeling has been suggested as a fruitful methodology for mechanism finding (Hedstrom 2005) because of its capacity to model the micro and the macro level of social phenomena and their interconnection via the micro level interaction (patterns).

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