: Most-Cited Full-Text Articles http://pos.sagepub.com/ Most-cited rankings are recalculated at the beginning of the month and are based on citations to articles on this journal site from articles in other HighWire-hosted journals. 2009-11-05 <![CDATA[That's Interesting!: Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/1/2/309?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 1971; 1:309-344
Article]]> Murray S. Davis 1971-01-01 10.1177/004839317100100211 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Conditions of Fruitfulness of Theorizing About Mechanisms in Social Science]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/21/3/367?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 1991; 21:367-388
Article]]> Arthur L. Stinchcombe 1991-09-01 10.1177/004839319102100305 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[What Written Knowledge Does: Three Examples of Academic Discourse]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/11/3/361?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 1981; 11:361-387
Article]]> Charles Bazerman 1981-09-01 10.1177/004839318101100305 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Mechanism and Explanation]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/27/4/410?rss=1&ssource=mfc Dec 1, 1997; 27:410-465
Article]]> Mario Bunge 1997-12-01 10.1177/004839319702700402 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[A Postscript to Knowledge and Human Interests*{dagger}]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/3/1/157?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 1973; 3:157-189
Article]]> Jurgen Habermas, Christian Lenhardt 1973-01-01 10.1177/004839317300300111 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Mundane Reasoning]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/4/1/35?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 1974; 4:35-54
Article]]> Melvin Pollner 1974-01-01 10.1177/004839317400400103 SAGE Publications <![CDATA['The Very Coinage of Your Brain': The Anatomy of Reality Disjunctures]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/5/3/411?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 1975; 5:411-430
Article]]> Melvin Pollner 1975-01-01 10.1177/004839317500500304 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Overcoming Metaphysics: Elias and Foucault on Power and Freedom]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/23/1/50?rss=1&ssource=mfc Mar 1, 1993; 23:50-72
Article]]> Ian Burkitt 1993-03-01 10.1177/004839319302300103 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[How Does It Work?: The Search for Explanatory Mechanisms]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/34/2/182?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2004; 34:182-210
Article]]> Mario Bunge 2004-06-01 10.1177/0048393103262550 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Social Mechanisms and Causal Inference]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/34/1/55?rss=1&ssource=mfc Mar 1, 2004; 34:55-78
Article]]> Daniel Steel 2004-03-01 10.1177/0048393103260775 SAGE Publications <![CDATA['That's Classic!' The Phenomenology and Rhetoric of Successful Social Theories]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/16/3/285?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 1986; 16:285-301
Article]]> Murray S. Davis 1986-09-01 10.1177/004839318601600301 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Methodological Imperative in Psychology]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/15/1/1?rss=1&ssource=mfc Mar 1, 1985; 15:1-13
Article]]> Kurt Danziger 1985-03-01 10.1177/004839318501500101 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Nonreductive Individualism: Part I--Supervenience and Wild Disjunction]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/32/4/537?rss=1&ssource=mfc Dec 1, 2002; 32:537-559
Article]]> R. Keith Sawyer 2002-12-01 10.1177/004839302237836 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Putting Philosophy to Work: Karl Popper's Influence on Scientific Practice]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/11/3/389?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 1981; 11:389-407
Article]]> Michael Mulkay, G. Nigel Gilbert 1981-09-01 10.1177/004839318101100306 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Practices and Actions A Wittgensteinian Critique of Bourdieu and Giddens]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/27/3/283?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 1997; 27:283-308
Article]]> Theodore R. Schatzki 1997-09-01 10.1177/004839319702700301 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Seven Pillars of Popper's Social Philosophy]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/26/4/528?rss=1&ssource=mfc Dec 1, 1996; 26:528-556
Article]]> Mario Bunge 1996-12-01 10.1177/004839319602600405 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Mechanisms in the Analysis of Social Macro-Phenomena]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/34/2/237?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2004; 34:237-259
Article]]> Renate Mayntz 2004-06-01 10.1177/0048393103262552 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Social Boundary Mechanisms]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/34/2/211?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2004; 34:211-236
Article]]> Charles Tilly 2004-06-01 10.1177/0048393103262551 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Popper's Situational Analysis and Contemporary Sociology]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/28/3/339?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 1998; 28:339-364
Article]]> Peter Hedstrom, Richard Swedberg, Lars Udehn 1998-09-01 10.1177/004839319802800302 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Interpretive Social Science and the "Native's Point of View": A Closer Look]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/28/1/32?rss=1&ssource=mfc Mar 1, 1998; 28:32-68
Article]]> Todd Jones 1998-03-01 10.1177/004839319802800102 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Is Coase a Realist?]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/28/1/5?rss=1&ssource=mfc Mar 1, 1998; 28:5-31
Article]]> Uskali Maki 1998-03-01 10.1177/004839319802800101 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Review Symposium : Douglas W. Hands G. C. Archibald Joseph Agassi On S. J. Latsis, ed. Method and Appraisal in Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. viii + 218. $17.50 The Methodology of Economic Research Programmes]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/9/3/293?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 1979; 9:293-303
Article]]> Douglas W. Hands 1979-09-01 10.1177/004839317900900303 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[A Realist Theory of Empirical Testing Resolving the Theory-Ladenness/ Objectivity Debate]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/24/2/133?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 1994; 24:133-158
Article]]> Shelby D. Hunt 1994-06-01 10.1177/004839319402400201 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Testability, Flexibility: Kuhnian Values in Scientists' Discourse Concerning Theory Choice]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/14/3/303?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 1984; 14:303-330
Article]]> Jonathan Potter 1984-09-01 10.1177/004839318401400302 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Intentionalistic Explanations in the Social Sciences]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/21/3/332?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 1991; 21:332-344
Article]]> John R. Searle 1991-09-01 10.1177/004839319102100303 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Explanatory Unification: Double and Doubtful]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/31/4/488?rss=1&ssource=mfc Dec 1, 2001; 31:488-506
Article]]> Uskali Maki 2001-12-01 10.1177/004839310103100402 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Ten Modes of Individualism--None of Which Works--And Their Alternatives]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/30/3/384?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 2000; 30:384-406
Article]]> Mario Bunge 2000-09-01 10.1177/004839310003000303 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Natural Rationality: A Neglected Concept in the Social Sciences]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/6/2/115?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 1976; 6:115-126
Article]]> S.B. Barnes 1976-01-01 10.1177/004839317600600202 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[A Theory of Communicative Competence]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/3/1/135?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 1973; 3:135-156
Article]]> T.A. McCarthy 1973-01-01 10.1177/004839317300300110 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Review Symposium on Habermas : II--Critical Theory Criticized: Habermas's Knowledge and Human Interests and its Aftermath]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/2/1/211?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 1972; 2:211-229
Article]]> Fred R. Dallmayr 1972-01-01 10.1177/004839317200200116 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Theory Choice and the Comparison of Rival Theoretical Perspectives in Political Sociology]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/26/1/26?rss=1&ssource=mfc Mar 1, 1996; 26:26-60
Article]]> Geoffrey Brahm Levey 1996-03-01 10.1177/004839319602600102 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Bloor's Wittgenstein or The Fly in the Bottle]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/17/1/67?rss=1&ssource=mfc Mar 1, 1987; 17:67-96
Article]]> Peter Munz 1987-03-01 10.1177/004839318701700104 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Confuting Popper on the Rationality Principle]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/23/4/446?rss=1&ssource=mfc Dec 1, 1993; 23:446-467
Article]]> Robert Nadeau 1993-12-01 10.1177/004839319302300404 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Autonomy of the Mentally Ill: A Case-Study in Individualistic Ethics]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/14/3/331?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 1984; 14:331-349
Article]]> Nathaniel Laor 1984-09-01 10.1177/004839318401400303 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Mechanisms of Emergence]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/34/2/260?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2004; 34:260-282
Article]]> R. Keith Sawyer 2004-06-01 10.1177/0048393103262553 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Individualism-Holism Debate on Intertheoretic Reduction and the Argument from Multiple Realization]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/33/1/77?rss=1&ssource=mfc Mar 1, 2003; 33:77-99
Article]]> Julie Zahle 2003-03-01 10.1177/0048393102250306 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Many Approaches, but Few Arrivals: Merton and the Columbia Model of Theory Construction]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/2/174?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2009; 39:174-211
Article]]> Stephen Turner 2009-06-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Popper, Historicism and Emergence]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/12/1/59?rss=1&ssource=mfc Mar 1, 1982; 12:59-67
Article]]> Nicholas Tilley 1982-03-01 10.1177/004839318201200104 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Problem of Reflexivity in the Sociology of Science]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/8/4/321?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 1978; 8:321-343
Article]]> Barry Gruenberg 1978-01-01 10.1177/004839317800800401 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Some Organizational Features in the Local Production of a Plausible Text*{ddagger}]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/8/2/113?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 1978; 8:113-135
Article]]> Digby C. Anderson 1978-01-01 10.1177/004839317800800201 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Non-Indexical Action]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/5/3/393?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 1975; 5:393-409
Article]]> James Heap 1975-01-01 10.1177/004839317500500303 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Methods in Psychology; A Critical Case Study of Pavlov]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/4/1/17?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 1974; 4:17-34
Article]]> John R. Wettersten 1974-01-01 10.1177/004839317400400102 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Some Problems with Falsificationism in Economics]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/14/4/489?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 1984; 14:489-495
Article]]> Bruce J. Caldwell 1984-01-01 10.1177/004839318401400404 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Role of Conservation Principles in Twentieth-Century Economic Theory]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/14/4/461?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jan 1, 1984; 14:461-473
Article]]> Philip Mirowski 1984-01-01 10.1177/004839318401400402 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The End of Luhmann's Social Systems Theory]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/27/4/387?rss=1&ssource=mfc Dec 1, 1997; 27:387-409
Article]]> Gerhard Wagner 1997-12-01 10.1177/004839319702700401 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Blindspot of a Liberal Popper and the Problem of Community]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/27/1/5?rss=1&ssource=mfc Mar 1, 1997; 27:5-23
Article]]> Fred Eidlin 1997-03-01 10.1177/004839319702700101 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Power and Resistance]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/20/2/170?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 1990; 20:170-182
Article]]> Henry Krips 1990-06-01 10.1177/004839319002000202 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Defending Laws in the Social Sciences]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/20/1/56?rss=1&ssource=mfc Mar 1, 1990; 20:56-83
Article]]> Harold Kincaid 1990-03-01 10.1177/004839319002000104 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Le realisme des hypotheses et la Partial Interpretation View]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/18/3/281?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 1988; 18:281-325
Article]]> PH Mongin 1988-09-01 10.1177/004839318801800301 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[In Defense of Bacon]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/25/2/192?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 1995; 25:192-215
Article]]> Alan Soble 1995-06-01 10.1177/004839319502500203 SAGE Publications