{"id":2254,"date":"2026-08-17T11:47:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:55:17","slug":"kzfss-sonderheft-explanation-and-causality-in-sociology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/2026\/08\/17\/kzfss-sonderheft-explanation-and-causality-in-sociology\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Issue \"Explanation and Causality in Sociology\"\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In sociology and related disciplines, classic methodological questions continually arise anew in light of theoretical discussions, methodological innovations, and new data sources: How can social phenomena be explained? How can causality be conceptualized, and how can valid causal inferences be drawn? How can history, culture, and meaning be incorporated into explanations? How does explanation relate to description, understanding, and prediction? What potential and challenges do digital behavioral data and computational methods present for sociology as an explanatory science? Special Issue 66 of the K\u00f6lner Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie explores these and similar questions across 22 chapters. The special issue was edited by Gunnar Otte, Nico Sonntag, Heinz Leitg\u00f6b, Natascha Nisic, and Werner Raub. It stems largely from the activities of the AS Working Group on \u201cMethodology of the Social Sciences.\u201d&nbsp;<em>K\u00f6lner Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie&nbsp;<\/em>in 22 Kapiteln nach. Das Sonderheft haben Gunnar Otte, Nico Sonntag, Heinz Leitg\u00f6b,&nbsp;Natascha Nisic&nbsp;und Werner Raub herausgegeben. Es geht ma\u00dfgeblich auf die Aktivit\u00e4ten des AS-Arbeitskreises &#8222;Methodologie der Sozialwissenschaften&#8220; zur\u00fcck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link to the Open Access special issue ( https:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/11577\/volumes-and-issues\/78-3 )&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/11577\/volumes-and-issues\/78-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/11577\/volumes-and-issues\/78-3<\/a>&nbsp;)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In der Soziologie und angrenzenden Wissenschaften stellen sich klassische methodologische Fragen im Licht theoretischer Diskussionen, methodischer Innovationen und neuer Datenquellen immer wieder neu: Wie lassen&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aus-der-akademie","tag-aktuell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions\/2259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}