Notes
1. Hedström, P. & Swedberg, R. (1998). ‘Social mechanisms: an introductory essay’, in Social Mechanisms. An Analytical Approach to Social Theory, eds P. Hedström & R. Swedberg, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 3.
2. See, for example, the twenty-four different meanings of this expression sorted by J. Mahoney (2001), in “Beyond Correlational Analysis: Recent Innovations in Theory and Methods”, Sociological Forum, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 575–593.
3. The macro–micro–macro relation is graphically exemplified by the scheme known as “Coleman boat”, which was in fact originally elaborated by McClelland and later adopted by Coleman (p. 38, n. 14).