Princeton Analytical Sociology Series³

Damon Centola, Karen S. Cook, and Peter Hedstrom, Series Editors

The Princeton Analytical Sociology Series presents ambitious works by the most prominent and promising scholars in analytical sociology, and it includes theoretical and empirical studies of a wide range of topics. These books aim to explain important social facts such as patterns of violence, network structures, typical beliefs, and common ways of acting by detailing in clear and precise ways the mechanisms through which the social facts were brought about.

How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex Contagions Damon Centola
A new, counterintuitive theory for how social networks influence the spread of behavior
On the Move: Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-U.S. Migration Filiz Garip
Why do Mexicans migrate to the United States? Is there a typical Mexican migrant? Beginning in the 1970s, survey data indicated that the average migrant was a young, unmarried man who was poor, undereducated, and in search of better...
Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600–1757 Emily Erikson
The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors...