Peter Abell Explained

Peter Abell
Birth Date:	1939
Birth Place:	London, United Kingdom
Nationality:	British
Field:	Social scientist
Occupation:	Professor in the Management and Economic Strategy group within the department of Management at London School of Economics
Alma Mater:	University of Leeds

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,^[2] managerial economics and strategy group.

Work

He 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^[3] 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 activism

During the 1960s Abell was involved in demonstrations organised by the Committee of 100 in Trafalgar Square^[4] and in his youth advocated for civil disobedience and nuclear disarmament.^[5]

Selected publications

Books

• Book: Abell, Peter . Model building in sociology (basic ideas in the human sciences) . Weidenfeld and Nicolson . London . 610200189 . 1971 .
• Book: Abell . Peter . Organizations as bargaining and influence systems . 464079399 . 1975 .
• Book: Abell, Peter . The syntax of social life: the theory and method of comparative narratives . Clarendon Press . Oxford Oxfordshire New York . 1987 . 9780198272717 . registration .
• Book: Abell, Peter . Establishing support systems for industrial co-operatives: case studies from the Third World . Avebury Gower Pub. Co . Aldershot, Hants, England Brookfield, Vt., U.S.A . 1988 . 9780566054754 .
• Book: Abell, Peter. Organisation theory: an interdisciplinary approach . . 903146201 . 2006 .
• Book: Abell . Peter . Engel . Ofer . Ethnographic Causality . 2023 . . 978-9403429472 .

Book chapters

Journal articles

• Abell . Peter . Some aspects of narrative method . Journal of Mathematical Sociology . 18 . 2–3 . 93–134 . . 10.1080/0022250X.1993.9990119 . 1993 .
• Abell . Peter . On the prospects of a unified social science . . 1 . 1 . 1–26 . . 10.1093/soceco/1.1.1 . January 2003 .
• Abell . Peter . Narrative explanation: an alternative to variable-centered explanation? . . 30 . 287–310 . . 10.1146/annurev.soc.29.010202.100113 . 29737695 . 2004 .
• Abell . Peter . Narratives, Bayesian narratives and narrative actions . Sociologica . 1 . 3 . Società editrice il Mulino . 10.2383/25959 . 2007 . 143114149 .
• Abell . Peter . Review: Are reasons explanations?: Why? What Happens When People Give Reasons... and Why by Charles Tilly . . 36 . 6 . 532–534 . . 10.1177/009430610703600608 . 20443961 . November 2007 . 143899770 .
• Abell . Peter . A case for cases: comparative narratives in sociological explanation . . 38 . 1 . 38–70 . . 10.1177/0049124109339372 . August 2009 . 119501003 .

External links

• London School of Economics Staff Profile Peter Abell

Notes and References

1. Web site: Peter Abell's CV 2011. London School of Economics. 25 February 2014.
2. Web site: Professor Peter Abell. London School of Economics and Political Science. en-GB. 2020-02-10.
3. Web site: European Academy of Sociology - Fellows. European Academy of Sociology. 19 February 2014.
4. Leeds students arrested after sit-down demonstrations . . September 29, 1961 . February 25, 2014.
5. Letters - The Head and the Heart . . October 13, 1961 . February 25, 2014.