Explaining Social Processes
1st Edition
Published on 28. February 2008
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-59451-500-2 (ISBN)
Description
Built upon decades of experience at the frontiers of history and social science, Charles Tilly's newest book offers innovative methods and approaches that are applicable in a wide range of disciplines: politics, sociology, anthropology, history, economics, and more. The book covers approaches to analysis ranging from interpersonal exchanges to world-historical changes-economic, political, and social. He shows how a thoroughgoing relational account of social processes, coupled with the careful identification of causal mechanisms, illuminates variation and change in the ways people live at the small scale and the large.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
figures
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
498 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59451-500-2 (9781594515002)
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Explaining Social Processes
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Person
Charles Tilly, Columbia University, is one of the premier sociologists of our time. Among his 50 highly influential books are Contentious Politics (Paradigm 2006) and Trust and Rule (Cambridge University Press 2005).
Content
Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 Method and Explanation; Part II Concepts and Observations; Chapter 2 Systems, Dispositions, and Transactions in Social Analysis; Chapter 3 Observations of Social Processes and Their Formal Representations; Chapter 4 Event Catalogs as Theories; Chapter 5 Iron City Blues; Chapter 6 Why Read the Classics?; Part III Explanations and Comparisons; Chapter 7 To Explain Political Processes; Chapter 8 Means and Ends of Comparison in Macrosociology; Chapter 9 Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists; Chapter 10 Linkers, Diggers, and Glossers in Social Analysis; Part IV Historical Social Analysis; Chapter 11 History and Sociological Imagining; Chapter 12 Historical Analysis of Political Processes; Chapter 13 What Good Is Urban History?; Chapter 14 Anglo-American Social History Since 1945; Chapter 15 Three Visions of History and Theory; partV Conclusion; Chapter 16 Epilogue;