| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| The Status of Explanations | |
| Proposed Empirical Derivations from Explanations | |
| The Development of the Book | |
| Concluding Comments | |
| The Logic of Scientific Inference | |
| Fundamental Forms of Scientific Inference | |
| Theoretical and Empirical Statements | |
| Testing Theories with Observations | |
| Multiple Tests of Theories | |
| The Fundamental Criterion of a Strong Test of Theory | |
| Two Very General Alternative Theories: Statistical Inference | |
| The Crucial Experiment | |
| The Structure of Causal Theories | |
| Definition of Variables | |
| Definition of Causal Laws | |
| Observation in Support of Causal Theories | |
| Scientific Concepts | |
| Change of Concepts as Theories | |
| Change Conceptualization of Variables | |
| Type-Concepts | |
| Types as a Convenience in Talking | |
| About Interaction Effects | |
| Levels of Generality in Social Theory | |
| An Outline of Levels of Generality | |
| Levels of Critiques | |
| Conclusions | |
| Complex Causal Structures: Demographic, Functional, and Historicist Explanations of Social Phenomena | |
| Demographic Explanations of Social Phenomena | |
| The Simplest Integrated Demographic Theory: Population Growth with Negligible Reproductive Cycles | |
| A More Complex Integrated Demographic Theory | |
| Incomplete or Open Demographic Explanations: Rates, Quantities, and Proportions | |
| Demographic Explanation Summarized | |
| Functional Causal Imagery | |
| Indications for the Use of Functional Imagery | |
| Types of Social Selection Processes | |
| The Logic of Functional Explanation | |
| A Comment on the Conservative | |
| Nature of Functional Explanation | |
| Marxian Functionalism: Functional Arguments in a System of Unequal Power | |
| Summary | |
| Historicist Causal Imagery | |
| The Causal Structure of Historicist Explanations | |
| "Survivals" and Functional Explanations | |
| Empirical Derivations from Functional Historicism | |
| Institutions and Historicist Explanations | |
| Summary of Empirical Derivations from Institutional-Historicist Theories | |
| Historical Causes in Institutional-Historicist Explanations | |
| Institutional and Functional Historicism | |
| Sunk Costs and Historicist Explanations | |
| The Conditions of the Permanence of Resources | |
| The Historical Sources of Sunk Costs | |
| Micro-historicism and Cohort Analysis | |
| The Problem of the Choice of Variables in Causal Explanations | |
| Technical Appendix to Chapter Three / The Linear Directed Graph | |
| Approach to Complex Causal Structures | |
| The Basic Idea of a Linear Graph | |
| Chain or Cascade Graphs | |
| Reduction of More Complex Graphs | |
| Loops in Linear Graphs | |
| The Relations Between Tensions and Homeostasis in Functional Structures | |
| The Relation Between Tension and Structure Activity | |
| A Formal Representation of Marxian Functionalism | |
| Loops Not Touching the Causal Path | |
| The General Solution for Graph Transmittance | |
| Conclusion | |
| The Conceptualization of Power Phenomena | |
| Rights in Things and Rights in Persons | |
| Individual Powers | |
| Corporate Powers | |
| Legitimacy of Powers | |
| The Nesting of Power | |
| Doctrines of Legitimacy | |
| A Concept of Legitimacy | |
| An Information | |
| Conception of Power Decisions and Information | |
| Prices in Markets as Information | |
| Features of Price Systems | |
| Situational Variations in Power | |
| The Logical Structure of Information Concepts | |
| Political Incorporation | |
| Political Isolation and Incorporation | |
| The Components of Political Access | |
| The Incorporation of the German Proletariat | |
| The Construction of a Concept of Incorporation Some Difficulties | |
| The Logical Structure of the Concept | |
| Institutions and Institutional Integration Values and Power | |
| A Correlation Concept of Institutions | |
| Institutional Areas and Rank-related Power | |
| Institutional Conflict | |
| The Logical Structure of the Concept of Institutions | |
| The Creation of Organizations | |
| The Dispersion of Powers Needed by Projects | |
| Proposals and the Assembly of Powers | |
| Feasible Coalitions | |
| Forming Coalitions | |
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