Piter Abel

Piter Abel
Datum rođenja	1939
Mesto rođenja	London

Piter Abel (rođen 1939) je britanski sociolog, trenutno profesor emeritus na Londonskoj školi ekonomije gde je osnovao "Interdisciplinarni Institut Menadžmenta". On je predavao dugi niz godina u školi na Odeljenju za Menadžment, menadžerskoj ekonomiji i strategijskim grupama.

Rad

Poznat je po svom doprinosu matematičkim društvenim naukama, i kvantitetom i kvalitetom. Autor je nekoliko knjiga o metodologiji i individualnom učešću i saradnji. 

Politički aktivizam

Tokom 1960 Abel je bio umešan u demonstracije organizovane od strane Komiteta 100 na Trafalgar skveru i zalagao se za građansko nepokoravanje i nuklearno razoružanje..

Odabrane objave

Knjige

• Model Building in Sociology (Basic ideas in the human sciences) (1971)
• Organizations as bargaining and influence systems Edited volume (1975)
• The syntax of social life: The theory and method of comparative narratives Oxford University Press(1987)
• Establishing Support Systems for Industrial Co-Operatives: Case Studies from the Third World (1988)
• Organisation Theory; An interdisciplinary Approach University of London Press (2006)

Poglavlja knjiga i radovi iz žurnala

• 'Some Aspects of Narrative Method' Journal of Mathematical Sociology 1993 18:1-25.
• 'On the Prospects of a unified Social Science' Socio-economic Review, 2003, 1, 1-27
• 'Narrative explanation: An alternative to variable-centered explanation?', Annual Review of Sociology, 2004, 287-310.
• 'Narratives, Bayesian narratives and narrative actions' Sociologica 2007, 1:3
• 'Are reasons explanations?.' Contemporary Sociology 2007, 36:532-534
• 'A Case for Cases,Comparative Narratives in Sociological Explanation' Sociological Methods and Research 2009, 32:1-33
• 'Singular Mechanisms and Bayesian Narratives' in Demeulenaere, Pierre, ed. Analytical sociology and social mechanisms Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Spoljašnje veze

• London School of Economics Staff Profile Peter Abell Arhivirano na sajtu Wayback Machine (4. mart 2016)