: Most-Read Full-Text Articles http://pos.sagepub.com/ Most-read rankings are recalculated at the beginning of the month based on usage of full-text and PDF views for the previous month. 2009-11-05 <![CDATA[Habermas and the Political Sciences: The Relationship between Theory and Practice1]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/3/381?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 2009; 39:381-407
Article]]> Jorgen Pedersen 2009-09-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Obama's Political Philosophy: Pragmatism, Politics, and the University of Chicago]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/2/127?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2009; 39:127-173
Article]]> Bart Schultz 2009-06-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Realist Approach to Explanatory Mechanisms in Social Science: More than a Heuristic?]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/3/440?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 2009; 39:440-462
Article]]> Chares Demetriou 2009-09-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Economics Imperialism: Concept and Constraints]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/3/351?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 2009; 39:351-380
Article]]> Uskali Maki 2009-09-01 10.1177/0048393108319023 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Complexity Theory, Systems Theory, and Multiple Intersecting Social Inequalities]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/37/4/449?rss=1&ssource=mfc Dec 1, 2007; 37:449-470
Article]]> Sylvia Walby 2007-12-01 10.1177/0048393107307663 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Ian Hacking's Proposal for the Distinction between Natural and Social Sciences]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/2/212?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2009; 39:212-234
Article]]> Maria Laura Martinez 2009-06-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Sociology of Sociology]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/37/4/501?rss=1&ssource=mfc Dec 1, 2007; 37:501-524
Article]]> Anthony King 2007-12-01 10.1177/0048393107307665 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Causation in the Social Sciences: Evidence, Inference, and Purpose]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/1/20?rss=1&ssource=mfc Mar 1, 2009; 39:20-40
Article]]> Julian Reiss 2009-03-01 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[Rethinking Systems Theory: A Programmatic Introduction]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/37/4/391?rss=1&ssource=mfc Dec 1, 2007; 37:391-407
Article]]> Andreas Pickel 2007-12-01 10.1177/0048393107307809 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Habermas' Method: Rational Reconstruction]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/38/4/457?rss=1&ssource=mfc Dec 1, 2008; 38:457-485
Article]]> Jorgen Pedersen 2008-12-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Shrinking Merton]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/3/481?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 2009; 39:481-489
Article]]> Stephen P. Turner 2009-09-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Why Organizational Ecology Is Not a Darwinian Research Program]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/3/408?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 2009; 39:408-439
Article]]> Thomas A. C. Reydon, Markus Scholz 2009-09-01 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[Luhmann and Emergentism: Competing Paradigms for Social Systems Theory?]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/37/4/408?rss=1&ssource=mfc Dec 1, 2007; 37:408-432
Article]]> Dave Elder-Vass 2007-12-01 10.1177/0048393107307660 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[A Critical Social Systems View of the Internet]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/37/4/471?rss=1&ssource=mfc Dec 1, 2007; 37:471-500
Article]]> Wolfgang Hofkirchner 2007-12-01 10.1177/0048393107307664 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[Defending Scientific Study of the Social: Against Clifford Geertz (and His Critics)]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/37/3/289?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 2007; 37:289-314
Article]]> Kei Yoshida 2007-09-01 10.1177/0048393107303776 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[We and the Plural Subject]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/2/235?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2009; 39:235-259
Article]]> Boudewijn de Bruin 2009-06-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Turner on Merton]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/2/284?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2009; 39:284-293
Article]]> Joseph Agassi 2009-06-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[A More Sophisticated Merton]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/2/266?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2009; 39:266-271
Article]]> Harold Kincaid 2009-06-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Constructing "The Economy"]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/1/3?rss=1&ssource=mfc Mar 1, 2009; 39:3-19
Article]]> Margaret Schabas 2009-03-01 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[Merton's Flawed and Incomplete Methodological Program: Response to Stephen Turner]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/2/272?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2009; 39:272-283
Article]]> Charles Crothers 2009-06-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Objectivity, Value Spheres, and "Inherent Laws": On some Suggestive Isomorphisms between Weber, Bourdieu, and Luhmann]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/38/1/97?rss=1&ssource=mfc Mar 1, 2008; 38:97-120
Article]]> Hans Henrik Bruun 2008-03-01 10.1177/0048393107311144 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Complexity Theories, Social Theory, and the Question of Social Complexity]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/31/3/323?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 2001; 31:323-360
Article]]> Peter Stewart 2001-09-01 10.1177/004839310103100303 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Theorizing]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/32/2/131?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2002; 32:131-150
Article]]> Steve Clarke 2002-06-01 10.1177/004931032002001 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[What's New in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences?: Guest Editors' Introduction]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/38/3/311?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 2008; 38:311-313
Article]]> Julian Reiss, David Teira, Jesus Zamora Bonilla 2008-09-01 10.1177/0048393108319397 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[No Letters: Hobbes and 20th-Century Philosophy of Language]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/38/4/486?rss=1&ssource=mfc Dec 1, 2008; 38:486-512
Article]]> W.P. Grundy 2008-12-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Unrealistic Assumptions in Rational Choice Theory]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/37/2/115?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2007; 37:115-138
Article]]> Aki Lehtinen, Jaakko Kuorikoski 2007-06-01 10.1177/0048393107299684 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Racism: In Defense of Garcia]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/3/475?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 2009; 39:475-480
Article]]> Andrew Valls 2009-09-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[In Defense of Organizational Evolution: A Reply to Reydon and Scholz]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/3/463?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 2009; 39:463-474
Article]]> John Lemos 2009-09-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Book Review: Ringer, F. (2004). Max Weber: An Intellectual Biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/3/540?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 2009; 39:540-542
Article]]> Asaf Kedar 2009-09-01 10.1177/0048393109334594 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Rethinking Practices and Structures]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/35/2/196?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2005; 35:196-230
Article]]> T. J. Berard 2005-06-01 10.1177/0048393105275290 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Assault Badly Misses the Mark: (Comment on Stephen Turner)]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/2/260?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2009; 39:260-265
Article]]> Piotr Sztompka 2009-06-01 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[Scientific and "Radical" Ethnomethodology: From Incompatible Paradigms to Ethnomethodological Sociology]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/38/2/167?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2008; 38:167-191
Article]]> Ilkka Arminen 2008-06-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Review Essay: Pyrrhic Victories and a Trojan Horse in the Strauss Wars]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/2/294?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2009; 39:294-323
Article]]> William H. F. Altman 2009-06-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Sociology of Philosophies: A Precis]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/30/2/157?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2000; 30:157-201
Article]]> Randall Collins 2000-06-01 10.1177/004839310003000201 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Usefulness of Fallibilism in Post-Positivist Philosophy: A Popperian Critique of Critical Realism]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/37/3/263?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 2007; 37:263-288
Article]]> Justin Cruickshank 2007-09-01 10.1177/0048393107303759 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Rationality in Collective Action]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/36/1/3?rss=1&ssource=mfc Mar 1, 2006; 36:3-17
Article]]> Margaret Gilbert 2006-03-01 10.1177/0048393105284167 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Testimony from a Popperian Perspective]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/38/4/419?rss=1&ssource=mfc Dec 1, 2008; 38:419-456
Article]]> Antoni Diller 2008-12-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Market Hegemony and Economic Theory]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/38/4/513?rss=1&ssource=mfc Dec 1, 2008; 38:513-532
Article]]> Stephen Ellis 2008-12-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Foundations of Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Social Systems]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/29/4/481?rss=1&ssource=mfc Dec 1, 1999; 29:481-516
Article]]> Alex Viskovatoff 1999-12-01 10.1177/004839319902900402 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Book Review: McFalls, Laurence (ed.). (2007). Max Weber's "Objectivity" Reconsidered. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/3/535?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 2009; 39:535-539
Article]]> Hans Henrik Bruun 2009-09-01 10.1177/0048393109334600 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Against Beck: In Defence of Risk Analysis]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/36/2/149?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2006; 36:149-172
Article]]> Scott Campbell, Greg Currie 2006-06-01 10.1177/0048393106287209 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[The Advantage of Theft over Honest Toil]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/3/507?rss=1&ssource=mfc Sep 1, 2009; 39:507-526
Article]]> Joseph Agassi 2009-09-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Self-Ownership and the Lockean Proviso]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/1/93?rss=1&ssource=mfc Mar 1, 2009; 39:93-98
Article]]> Tibor R. Machan 2009-03-01 SAGE Publications <![CDATA[Book Review: Keuth, H. (2005). The Philosophy of Karl Popper. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press]]> http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/39/2/324?rss=1&ssource=mfc Jun 1, 2009; 39:324-332
Article]]> Gunnar Andersson 2009-06-01 10.1177/0048393109332145 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