@article{5e73c4be54d24760b30b492297561e8d,
title = "Thick Concepts and Sociological Research",
abstract = "I consider how to do sociological things with thick concepts, what{\textquoteright}s the relation between thick concepts and social facts, what{\textquoteright}s unique about thick concepts, and what{\textquoteright}s unique about creatures in whose lives there are thick concepts.",
keywords = "making things possible, sociological research, theory, thick concepts, thin concepts",
author = "Gabriel Abend",
note = "Funding Information: Thank you. Alice Crary, Andrew Perrin, Michael Sauder, Pekka V?yrynen, Stefan Knau?, and Tullio Viola: for your comments on earlier drafts. Andreas Pettenkofer, Caitlin Petre, Carol Heimer, Charles Camic, Christopher Winship, Claude Rosental, Claudio Benzecry, Daniel Fridman, ?ve Chiapello, Henning Hillmann, Isaac Reed, Issa Kohler-Hausmann, John Hall, Josh Whitford, Juhi Tyagi, Kathi Beier, Lukas Posselt, Marion Fourcade, Markus Schulz, Martin Mulsow, Michael Hechter, Monika Krause, Nathan Alexander, Neil Gross, Nicolas Dodier, Olivier Roueff, Paul Lagneau-Ymonet, Petra G?mplov?, Richard Swedberg, Sonia Prelat, Steven Lukes, Urs Lindner, Ya-Wen Lei, and Yves H?nggi: for your suggestions and objections. New York University, Universit?t Luzern, Centre d??tude des mouvements sociaux (EHESS), and Max-Weber-Kolleg: for intellectual stimulation and free office supplies. The ASA Theory Section gave me the 2017 Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting, along with the opportunity to deliver the 2018 Coser Lecture. Thank you. My lecture and article are dedicated to the memory of Donald Nathan Levine (1931?2015) and Arthur Leonard Stinchcombe (1933?2018)?sociological ?theorists.? Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} American Sociological Association 2019.",
year = "2019",
month = sep,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/0735275119869979",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "37",
pages = "209--233",
journal = "Sociological Theory",
issn = "0735-2751",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "3",
}