A wide variety of work in social science concerns sequences of events or phenomena. This
essay reviews concepts of sequence and methods for analyzing sequences. After a brief …

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What do variables really tell us? When exactly do inventions occur? Why do we always miss
turning points as they transpire? When does what doesn't happen mean as much, if not …

This essay argues that sociology's major current problems are intellectual. It traces these
problems to the exhaustion of the current “variables paradigm” and considers the Chicago …

Recent developments in historical sociology emphasize the centrality of temporality to
analysis and explanation. Narrative uses temporal order to organize information about …

This paper addresses the lack of theoretical work on young children in sociology by
presenting an interpretive approach to childhood socialization. This approach extends …

A treatment of affect control theory, which holds that people try to manage their experiences
so that their immediate feelings about people, actions, and settings affirm long-term …

It has been argued that environmental variability favors variation in offspring size. We have
examined theoretically the effects of three types of environmental heterogeneity on parental …

The nature of narrative explanations is explored as an alternative to the better established
variable-centered explanations. Narratives are conceived as di-graphs where the nodes are …

A framework is developed for computer‐assisted analysis of event sequences like those
obtained through sociological field work or historical research. The analytic procedures …