释义 |
- Work
- Political activism
- Selected publications
- Notes
- External links
{{Multiple issues|{{COI|date=July 2016}}{{BLP sources|date=February 2014}} }}{{Infobox scientist | name = Peter Abell | image = PeterAbell2014.jpg | image_size = 220 | caption = Professor Peter Abell | birth_date = 1939 | birth_place = London, United Kingdom | residence = United Kingdom | nationality = British | field = Social scientist | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | parents = | children = | occupation = Professor in the Management and Economic Strategy group within the department of Management at London School of Economics |work_institution = {{unbulleted list| London School of Economics | Copenhagen Business School | Nuffield College, Oxford | University of Essex | Imperial College of Science and Technology | University of Surrey | University of Birmingham}} |alma_mater = University of Leeds |known_for = }}Peter Abell (born 1939) is a British social scientist, currently professor emeritus at the London School of Economics where he has founded and directed the "Interdisciplinary Institute of Management".[1] He has been teaching for many years at LSE's Department of Management, managerial economics and strategy group. WorkHe is known for his contribution to mathematical social science, both quantitative and qualitative. He is the author of several books on methodology and individual participation and co-operation[2] and currently focuses on an approach he coined Bayesian narratives and on network analysis particularly the role of signed structures in group formation and identity change. Political activismDuring the 1960s Abell was involved in demonstrations organised by the Committee of 100 in Trafalgar Square[3] and advocated for civil disobedience and nuclear disarmament.[4] Selected publications- Books
- {{Cite book | last = Abell | first = Peter | title = Model building in sociology (basic ideas in the human sciences) | publisher = Weidenfeld and Nicolson | location = London | oclc = 610200189 | year = 1971 }}
- {{Cite book | editor-last = Abell | editor-first = Peter | title = Organizations as bargaining and influence systems | oclc = 464079399 | year = 1975 }}
- {{cite book | last = Abell | first = Peter | title = The syntax of social life: the theory and method of comparative narratives | publisher = Clarendon Press | location = Oxford Oxfordshire New York | year = 1987 | isbn = 9780198272717 }}
- {{cite book | last = Abell | first = Peter | title = Establishing support systems for industrial co-operatives: case studies from the Third World | publisher = Avebury Gower Pub. Co | location = Aldershot, Hants, England Brookfield, Vt., U.S.A | year = 1988 | isbn = 9780566054754 }}
- {{cite book | last = Abell | first = Peter| title = Organisation theory: an interdisciplinary approach | publisher = University of London Press | oclc = 903146201 | year = 2006 }}
- Book chapters
- {{citation | last = Abell | first = Peter | contribution = Singular Mechanisms and Bayesian Narratives | editor-last = Demeulenaere | editor-first = Pierre | title = Analytical sociology and social mechanisms | pages = 121–135 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Leiden | year = 2011 | isbn = 9781139082617 | ref = harv | postscript = .}}
- Journal articles
- {{Cite journal | last = Abell | first = Peter | title = Some aspects of narrative method | journal = Journal of Mathematical Sociology | volume = 18 | issue = 2-3 | pages = 93–134 | publisher = Taylor and Francis | doi = 10.1080/0022250X.1993.9990119 | date = 1993 | url = https://doi.org/10.1080/0022250X.1993.9990119 | ref = harv | postscript = .}}
- {{Cite journal | last = Abell | first = Peter | title = On the prospects of a unified social science | journal = Socio-Economic Review | volume = 1 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–26 | publisher = Oxford Journals | doi = 10.1093/soceco/1.1.1 | date = January 2003 | url = https://doi.org/10.1093/soceco/1.1.1 | ref = harv | postscript = .}}
- {{Cite journal | last = Abell | first = Peter | title = Narrative explanation: an alternative to variable-centered explanation? | journal = Annual Review of Sociology | volume = 30 | issue = | pages = 287–310 | publisher = Annual Reviews | doi = 10.1146/annurev.soc.29.010202.100113 | jstor = 29737695 | date = 2004 | url = https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.29.010202.100113 | ref = harv | postscript = .}}
- {{Cite journal | last = Abell | first = Peter | title = Narratives, Bayesian narratives and narrative actions | journal = Sociologica | volume = 1 | issue = 3 | pages = | publisher = Società editrice il Mulino | doi = 10.2383/25959 | date = 2007 | url = https://doi.org/10.2383/25959 | ref = harv | postscript = .}}
- {{Cite journal | last = Abell | first = Peter | title = Review: Are reasons explanations?: Why? What Happens When People Give Reasons... and Why by Charles Tilly | journal = Contemporary Sociology | volume = 36 | issue = 6 | pages = 532–534 | publisher = Sage | doi = 10.1177/009430610703600608 | jstor = 20443961 | date = November 2007 | url = https://doi.org/10.1177/009430610703600608 | ref = harv | postscript = .}}
- {{Cite journal | last = Abell | first = Peter | title = A case for cases: comparative narratives in sociological explanation | journal = Sociological Methods & Research | volume = 38 | issue = 1 | pages = 38–70 | publisher = Sage | doi = 10.1177/0049124109339372 | date = August 2009 | url = https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124109339372 | ref = harv | postscript = .}}
Notes1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/management/documents/cv/PAbell-CV-Jan-2011.pdf|title=Peter Abell's CV 2011|publisher=London School of Economics|accessdate=25 February 2014}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.european-academy-sociology.eu/fellows/abell.html|title=European Academy of Sociology - Fellows|publisher=European Academy of Sociology|accessdate=19 February 2014}} 3. ^{{cite press release | title = Leeds students arrested after sit-down demonstrations | publisher = Union News - The Weekly Newspaper of Leeds University Union | date = September 29, 1961 | url = http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/5555/1/LUA-PUB-002-UN-100_000.pdf | accessdate = February 25, 2014}} 4. ^{{cite press release | title = Letters - The Head and the Heart | publisher = Union News - Leeds University Union | date = October 13, 1961 | url = http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/5373/1/LUA-PUB-002-UN-102_000.pdf | accessdate = February 25, 2014}}
External links- London School of Economics Staff Profile Peter Abell
{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Abell, Peter}}{{UK-academic-bio-stub}} 5 : 1939 births|Living people|English sociologists|Academics of the London School of Economics|Alumni of the University of Leeds |