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Tilly argues for a shift in social sciences from individual to social relationships. Societies are not autonomous systems, and social inquiry should concentrate on relationships and activities. Inquiry into how societies form and change may may be local or transnational, and it may involve other relationships and activities. How such inquiry should be carried out is unclear, although there are several possible examples available.

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Russell Sage Foundation
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English
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176

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Research, Social change, Social history, Theoriee n., Histoire sociale, Recherche, Investigacio n, Changement social, Sozialer Wandel, Historia social, Sociale verandering, E volution sociale, Sociology, Évolution sociale, Investigación, Theorieën

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First Sentence

"Who do other people’s books behave like docile marionettes? Mine keep playing Pinocchio."

Table of Contents

1. Intellectual Equipment
Worrying About Social Change Page 1 Thinkers Face Change Page 6 What Was Happening? Page 7 Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons Page 10 What to Do Page 13
2. Four Pernicious Postulates
False Principles Page 17 Society Is a Thing Apart Page 20 Mental Events Cause Social Behavior Page 26 "Social Change" Is a Coherent Phenomenon Page 33 Stage Theories Page 41
3. Four More Pernicious Postulates
Differentiation Is a Progressive Master Process Page 43 Differentiation Versus Integration Page 50 Change, Strain, Disorder Page 53 Illegitimate Versus Legitimate Force Page 56
4. Comparing
Eradicating Pernicious Postulates Page 60 Will Total History Save Us? Page 65 The Case for Huge (But Not Stupendous) Comparisons Page 74 No Safety in Numbers Page 76 Ways of Seeing Page 80 Looking at Comparisons Page 84
5. Individualizing Comparisons
The Will to Individualize Page 87 Kings or People? Page 91 Cracks in the Foundation Page 94
6. Universalizing Comparisons
The Decline of Natural History Page 97 Models of Revolution Page 102 Theda Skocpol's Revolutions Page 105
7. Finding Variation
How and When to Look for Variation Page 116 Barrington Moor Compares Page 119
8. Encompassing Comparisions
Encompassing the World Page 125 Stein Rokkan Encompasses Page 129 Rokkan's "Conceptual Maps of Europe" Page 131 What's Wrong? What Should We Do About It? Page 139
9. Conclusions
The Tasks at Hand Page 144 Bibliography Page 148 Acknowledgements Page 169 Index Page 171

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-167) and index.

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Russell Sage Foundation 75th anniversary series

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303.4/072
Library of Congress
HM101 .T557 1984

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xii, 176 p. :
Number of pages
176

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OL2871738M
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0871548798
LCCN
84060264
OCLC/WorldCat
11687787
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124797
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6534396

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