Dissecting the Social: Social mechanisms and explanatory theory In this chapter I argue for the importance of a specific kind of abstract analytical theorizing that differs from many other types of sociological theorizing in its focus on social mechanisms. A social mechanism, as defined here, is a...
Mary Rowlandson was a woman living near the coast of North America in the 17th and early 18th centuries. More specifically, she lived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony with her husband and four children. She is most famous for the time she was capture by Native Americans during King Phillip's...