[B2] Elder-Vass, D. (2012). The Reality of Social Construction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[B1] Elder-Vass, D. (2010). The Causal Power of Social Structures, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[A15] Archer, M. and D. Elder-Vass (2012) 'Cultural System or Norm Circles?', European Journal of Social Theory 15:1, 93-115.
[A14] Elder-Vass, D. (2012) 'Top-down causation and social structures', Interface Focus 2, 82-90. Part of an interdisciplinary special issue on the concept of top-down or downward causation.
[A13] Elder-Vass, D. (2011) 'The Causal Power of Discourse', Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 41:2, 143-160.
[A12] Elder-Vass, D. (2010) 'The Emergence of Culture' in Albert & Sigmund (eds) Soziologische Theorie kontrovers (Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie Special Issue 50) 351-63, VS Verlag. Published with a response by Jens Greve, 'Culture and Interpretation' and my reply 'Can groups have causal powers?' 378-82.
[A11] Elder-Vass, D. (2010) 'Realist critique without ethical naturalism and moral realism'. Journal of Critical Realism 9:1, 33-58.
[A10] Elder-Vass, D. (2010) Review of Frauley & Pearce (eds), Critical Realism and the Social Sciences, for British Journal of Sociology 61:1, 200-202.
[A9] Elder-Vass, D. (2008) 'Searching for realism, structure and agency in actor network theory'. British Journal of Sociology 59:3, 455-73.
[A8] Elder-Vass, D. (2008) 'Integrating institutional, relational, and embodied structure: an emergentist perspective'. British Journal of Sociology, 59:2, 281-99.
[A7] Elder-Vass, D. (2007) 'Social structure and social relations'. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 37:4, 463-77.
[A6] Elder-Vass, D. (2007) 'Luhmann and emergentism: Competing paradigms for social systems theory?'. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 37:4, 408-32.
[A5] Elder-Vass, D. (2007) 'Reconciling Archer and Bourdieu in an Emergentist Theory of Action'. Sociological Theory, 25:4, 325-46.
[A4] Elder-Vass, D. (2007) 'A Method for Social Ontology'. Journal of Critical Realism, 6:2, 226-49.
[A3] Elder-Vass, D. (2007) 'For Emergence: Refining Archer's Account of Social Structure'. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 37:1, 25-44. (Also see the responses by Porpora, Varela, and King in the subsequent issue).
[A2] Elder-Vass, D. (2006) 'Re-examining Bhaskar's three ontological domains: the lessons from emergence'. In C. Lawson, J. Latsis & N. Martins (Eds.), Contributions to Social Ontology, 160-76. London: Routledge.
[A1] Elder-Vass, D. (2005) 'Emergence and the Realist Account of Cause'. Journal of Critical Realism 4:2, 315-38.
[W1] Elder-Vass, D. (2009) 'Towards a social ontology of market systems', CRESI Working Paper 2009-06, University of Essex