Journal Articles
Elder-Vass, D (2022)
Pragmatism, critical realism and the study of value,
Journal of Critical Realism, 21(3), pp.261-287, ISSN: 1476-7430. DOI:
10.1080/14767430.2022.2049088.
Elder-Vass, D (2022)
Ethics and emancipation in action: concrete utopias,
Journal of Critical Realism, pp.1-13, ISSN: 1476-7430. DOI:
10.1080/14767430.2022.2031789.
Elder-Vass, D (2021)
Assets need audiences: how venture capitalists boost valuations by recruiting investors to asset circles,
Finance and Society, 7(1), pp.1-19, ISSN: 2059-5999. DOI:
10.2218/finsoc.v7i1.5588.
Elder-Vass, D (2020)
Appropriative practices and the ontology of economic form,
Teoria e Cultura, 14(2), pp.131-143, ISSN: 1809-5968. DOI:
10.34019/2318-101X.2019.v14.27894.
Rutzou, T and
Elder-Vass, D (2019)
On assemblages and things: fluidity, stability, causation stories and formation stories,
Sociological Theory, 37(4), pp.401-424, ISSN: 0735-2751. DOI:
10.1177/0735275119888250.
Elder-Vass, D (2019)
What is humanity?,
Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 21(1), pp.63-66, ISSN: 1600-910X. DOI:
10.1080/1600910X.2019.1687097.
Elder-Vass, D (2019)
No price without value: Towards a theory of value and price,
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 43(6), ISSN: 0309-166X. DOI:
10.1093/cje/bez040.
Elder-Vass, D (2019)
Defining the gift,
Journal of Institutional Economics, 16(5), pp.675-685, ISSN: 1744-1374. DOI:
10.1017/S174413741900033X.
Elder-Vass, D (2019)
Realism, values and critique,
Journal of Critical Realism, 18(3), pp.314-318, ISSN: 1476-7430. DOI:
10.1080/14767430.2019.1614744.
Elder-Vass, D (2017)
Reflections on sociology’s unspoken weakness: Bringing epistemology back in,
Journal of Sociology, 53(4), pp.753-755, ISSN: 1440-7833. DOI:
10.1177/1440783317744443.
Elder-Vass, D (2017)
Materialising social ontology,
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 41(5), ISSN: 0309-166X. DOI:
10.1093/cje/bex038.
Elder-Vass, D (2017)
Lifeworld and systems in the digital economy,
European Journal of Social Theory, 21(2), pp.227-244, ISSN: 1461-7137. DOI:
10.1177/1368431017709703.
Elder-Vass, D (2017)
Religion, Gender and Citizenship: Women of Faith, Gender Equality and Feminism,
SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, 65(2), pp.429-431, ISSN: 0038-0261. DOI:
10.1177/0038026117701343.
Elder-Vass, D (2017)
Material parts in social structures,
Journal of Social Ontology, 3(1), pp.89-105, ISSN: 2196-9655. DOI:
10.1515/jso-2015-0058.
Elder-Vass, D (2017)
Moral economies of the digital,
European Journal of Social Theory, ISSN: 1368-4310. DOI:
10.1177/1368431017734165.
Elder-Vass, D (2015)
Developing social theory using critical realism,
Journal of Critical Realism, 14(1), pp.80-92, ISSN: 1476-7430. DOI:
10.1179/1476743014Z.00000000047.
Elder-Vass, D (2015)
Free gifts and positional gifts: beyond exchangism,
European Journal of Social Theory, Available online on OnlineFirst, ISSN: 1368-4310. DOI:
10.1177/1368431014566562.
Elder-Vass, D (2015)
Of babies and bathwater. A review of Tuukka Kaidesoja (2013) Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology,
Journal of Social Ontology, Forthcoming, DOI:
10.1515/jso-2014-0029.
Elder-Vass, D (2015)
Collective intentionality and causal powers,
Journal of Social Ontology, ISSN: 2196-9655. DOI:
10.1515/jso-2014-0039,.
Elder-Vass, D (2015)
The moral economy of digital gifts,
International Journal of Social Quality, 5(1), ISSN: 1757-0344.
Elder-Vass, D (2014)
Disassembling actor-network theory,
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 45(1), pp.100-121, ISSN: 0048-3931. DOI:
10.1177/0048393114525858.
Elder-Vass, D (2014)
Social emergence: functional or relational,
Balkan Journal of Philosophy, 6(1), pp.5-16, ISSN: 1313-888X.
Elder-Vass, D (2014)
Giving and social transformation,
Journal of Critical Realism, 13(3), pp.261-285, ISSN: 1476-7430. DOI:
10.1179/1476743014Z.00000000030.
Elder-Vass, D (2014)
Reply to Sealey and Carter on realism and language,
JOURNAL FOR THE THEORY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, 44(3), pp.282-287, ISSN: 0021-8308. DOI:
10.1111/jtsb.12042.
Elder-Vass, D (2014)
Redescription, reduction, and emergence: a response to Tobias Hansson Wahlberg,
PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, 44(6), pp.792-797, ISSN: 0048-3931. DOI:
10.1177/0048393113515386.
Elder-Vass, D (2014)
Debate: seven ways to be a realist about language,
JOURNAL FOR THE THEORY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, 44(3), pp.249-267, ISSN: 0021-8308. DOI:
10.1111/jtsb.12040.
Elder-Vass, DJ (2012)
Towards a realist social constructionism,
Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas, 70, pp.9-24.
Archer, MS and
Elder-Vass, D (2012)
Cultural system or norm circles? An exchange,
European Journal of Social Theory, 15(1), pp.93-115, ISSN: 1368-4310. DOI:
10.1177/1368431011423592.
Elder-Vass, D (2012)
Top-down causation and social structures,
Interface Focus, 2(1), pp.82-90, ISSN: 2042-8898. DOI:
10.1098/rsfs.2011.0055.
Elder Vass, DJ (2011) The Causal Power of Discourse,
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 41(2), pp.143-160.
Elder Vass, DJ (2010)
Realist critique without ethical naturalism and moral realism,
Journal of Critical Realism, 9(1), pp.33-58, ISSN: 1476-7430. DOI:
10.1558/jcr.v9i1.33.
Elder-Vass, D (2010)
CAN GROUPS HAVE CAUSAL POWERS?,
KOLNER ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SOZIOLOGIE UND SOZIALPSYCHOLOGIE, pp.378-+, ISSN: 0023-2653.
Elder Vass, DJ (2008)
Searching for realism, structure and agency in actor network theory,
British Journal of Sociology, 59(3), pp.455-73.
Elder Vass, DJ (2008) Integrating institutional, relational, and embodied structure: an emergentist perspective,
British Journal of Sociology, 59(2), pp.281-99.
Elder Vass, DJ (2007) Social structure and social relations,
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 37(4), pp.463-77.
Elder Vass, DJ (2007) Luhmann and emergentism: Competing paradigms for social systems theory?
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 37(4), pp.408-32.
Elder Vass, DJ (2007) Reconciling Archer and Bourdieu in an Emergentist Theory of Action,
Sociological Theory, 25(4), pp.325-46.
Elder Vass, DJ (2007) A Method for Social Ontology,
Journal of Critical Realism, 6(2), pp.226-49.
Elder Vass, DJ (2007) For Emergence: Refining Archer's Account of Social Structure,
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 37(1), pp.25-44.
Elder Vass, DJ (2005)
Emergence and the Realist Account of Cause,
Journal of Critical Realism, 4(2), pp.315-38.
Chapters
Elder-Vass, D (2019)
Actor-network theory. In
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Methods, Sage.
Whittle, J,
Elder-Vass, D, Lumsden, K (2019)
'There's a Bit of Banter': How Male Teenagers 'Do Boy' on Social Networking Sites. In Lumsden, K and Harmer, E (ed)
Online Othering
Exploring Digital Violence and Discrimination on the Web, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.165-186, ISBN: 978-3-030-12632-2. DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-12633-9_7.
Elder-Vass, DJ (2017) Wie wirken Normen? Critical realism und die kausale Kraft sozialer Strukturen. In Mader, D and Lindner, U (ed)
Critical Realism meets kritische Sozialtheorie, Transcript Verlag, pp.77-93, ISBN: 9783837627251.
Elder-Vass, D (2016)
Intoduction [Profit and gift in the digital economy]. In
Unknown Parent Title, © Cambridge University Press,ISBN: 9781316509388.
Elder-Vass, D (2014)
Social entities and the basis of their powers. In
Rethinking the Individualism-holism Debate, © Springer International Publishing Switzerland, pp.39-53, ISBN: 9783319053448. DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-05344-8.
Elder-Vass, D (2014)
Commerce, community and digital gifts. In
Commerce and community: Ecologies of social cooperation, Routledge (© selection and editorial material - the editors, individual chapters, the contributors), pp.236-252, ISBN: 9780415810104.
Elder Vass, DJ (2010) The Emergence of Culture. In Albert, and eds, S (ed)
Soziologische Theorie kontrovers (Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie Special Issue 50, VS Verlag. Published with a response by Jens Greve, 'Culture and Interpretation' and my reply 'Can groups have causal powers?' 378-82, pp.351-63.
Elder Vass, DJ (2006) Re-examining Bhaskar's three ontological domains: the lessons from emergence. In Lawson, C, Latsis, J, eds, NM (ed)
Contributions to Social Ontology, Routledge, pp.160-76.
