{"id":"https://openalex.org/W20291208","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9967-0_5","title":"Causation as a Generative Process. The Elaboration of an Idea for the Social Sciences and an Application to an Analysis of an Interdependent Dynamic Social System","display_name":"Causation as a Generative Process. The Elaboration of an Idea for the Social Sciences and an Application to an Analysis of an Interdependent Dynamic Social System","publication_year":2009,"publication_date":"2009-01-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W20291208","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9967-0_5","mag":"20291208"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-9967-0_5","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9967-0_5","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9967-0_5","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4210230637","display_name":"The Springer series on demographic methods and population analysis","issn_l":"1877-2560","issn":["1877-2560","2215-1990"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["cwts-core"],"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"book series"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis","raw_type":"book-chapter"},"volume":{"id":"https://openalex.org/W4240970074","display_name":"Causal Analysis in Population Studies"},"type":"book-chapter","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5109034030","display_name":"Hans\u2010Peter Blossfeld","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I94626330","display_name":"University of Bamberg","ror":"https://ror.org/01c1w6d29","country_code":"DE","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I94626330"]}],"countries":["DE"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Hans-Peter Blossfeld","raw_affiliation_strings":["Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany","Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, University of Bamberg"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I94626330"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, University of Bamberg","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I94626330"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":1,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5109034030"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I94626330"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":6.1285,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":18,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.94745795,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":98},"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"83","last_page":"109"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10778","display_name":"Philosophy and History of Science","score":0.698199987411499,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1207","display_name":"History and Philosophy of Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10778","display_name":"Philosophy and History of Science","score":0.698199987411499,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1207","display_name":"History and Philosophy of Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13051","display_name":"Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research","score":0.1266999989748001,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3312","display_name":"Sociology and Political Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12953","display_name":"Critical Realism in Sociology","score":0.06629999727010727,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3312","display_name":"Sociology and Political Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/causality","display_name":"causality","score":0.9340000152587891},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/generative-processes","display_name":"generative processes","score":0.8080000281333923},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/causal-relationship","display_name":"causal relationship","score":0.6579999923706055},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/david-cox","display_name":"David Cox","score":0.8090000152587891},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/longitudinal-analysis","display_name":"longitudinal analysis","score":0.7129999995231628},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/social-processes","display_name":"social processes","score":0.6830000281333923},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/methodological-individualism","display_name":"methodological individualism","score":0.875}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C166151441","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4923601","display_name":"Causation","level":2,"score":0.8987042903900146},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111472728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9471","display_name":"Epistemology","level":1,"score":0.6041382551193237},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C98045186","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205663","display_name":"Process (computing)","level":2,"score":0.5273683667182922},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C39890363","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36108","display_name":"Generative grammar","level":2,"score":0.5210556387901306},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2779060403","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1538883","display_name":"Methodological individualism","level":2,"score":0.4904053211212158},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C185874996","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q269699","display_name":"Interdependence","level":2,"score":0.474987655878067},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C15744967","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9418","display_name":"Psychology","level":0,"score":0.39850497245788574},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144024400","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21201","display_name":"Sociology","level":0,"score":0.30560505390167236},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.22938430309295654},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C36289849","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34749","display_name":"Social science","level":1,"score":0.22725090384483337},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.11458313465118408},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.07683244347572327},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111919701","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9135","display_name":"Operating system","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-9967-0_5","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9967-0_5","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9967-0_5","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4210230637","display_name":"The Springer series on demographic methods and population analysis","issn_l":"1877-2560","issn":["1877-2560","2215-1990"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["cwts-core"],"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"book series"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis","raw_type":"book-chapter"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"sustainable_development_goals_aurora":[{"display_name":"Reduced inequalities","score":0.6899999976158142,"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/10"}],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":80,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W63469471","https://openalex.org/W155059922","https://openalex.org/W226314111","https://openalex.org/W568099195","https://openalex.org/W614676870","https://openalex.org/W1485311127","https://openalex.org/W1515242458","https://openalex.org/W1537395199","https://openalex.org/W1562249392","https://openalex.org/W1730782591","https://openalex.org/W1954420279","https://openalex.org/W1963921006","https://openalex.org/W1977214041","https://openalex.org/W1978108654","https://openalex.org/W1983225354","https://openalex.org/W1986750463","https://openalex.org/W1995269876","https://openalex.org/W1996358684","https://openalex.org/W2003089885","https://openalex.org/W2003617358","https://openalex.org/W2011418498","https://openalex.org/W2029746239","https://openalex.org/W2035977433","https://openalex.org/W2037019152","https://openalex.org/W2038514204","https://openalex.org/W2051285034","https://openalex.org/W2064790857","https://openalex.org/W2075328220","https://openalex.org/W2077260221","https://openalex.org/W2077758300","https://openalex.org/W2079434400","https://openalex.org/W2088188021","https://openalex.org/W2089008958","https://openalex.org/W2091082309","https://openalex.org/W2094902908","https://openalex.org/W2103275764","https://openalex.org/W2103873563","https://openalex.org/W2119106445","https://openalex.org/W2122018945","https://openalex.org/W2130306753","https://openalex.org/W2132917208","https://openalex.org/W2138254639","https://openalex.org/W2167951823","https://openalex.org/W2178225550","https://openalex.org/W2192832635","https://openalex.org/W2312764678","https://openalex.org/W2314734263","https://openalex.org/W2317367376","https://openalex.org/W2326341389","https://openalex.org/W2326570151","https://openalex.org/W2330672308","https://openalex.org/W2333719312","https://openalex.org/W2338321743","https://openalex.org/W2343715481","https://openalex.org/W2494506631","https://openalex.org/W2516312925","https://openalex.org/W2625952859","https://openalex.org/W2795429564","https://openalex.org/W2797111689","https://openalex.org/W2798644695","https://openalex.org/W2900319594","https://openalex.org/W3046752528","https://openalex.org/W3121415235","https://openalex.org/W3152489465","https://openalex.org/W4206481413","https://openalex.org/W4232940573","https://openalex.org/W4235107919","https://openalex.org/W4236358750","https://openalex.org/W4238748191","https://openalex.org/W4243865647","https://openalex.org/W4243976366","https://openalex.org/W4247399381","https://openalex.org/W4255405844","https://openalex.org/W4285719527","https://openalex.org/W4285786465","https://openalex.org/W4388371472","https://openalex.org/W4388381342","https://openalex.org/W6652948858","https://openalex.org/W7064451729","https://openalex.org/W7064892362"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W3123289749","https://openalex.org/W3208342835","https://openalex.org/W7100156087","https://openalex.org/W4230335845","https://openalex.org/W1992539529","https://openalex.org/W2761926216","https://openalex.org/W3048692394","https://openalex.org/W1492919115","https://openalex.org/W1530177579","https://openalex.org/W153078756"],"abstract_inverted_index":null,"counts_by_year":[{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2017,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2016,"cited_by_count":3}],"updated_date":"2026-10-28T10:33:24.094632","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}