Who do other people’s books behave like docile marionettes? Mine keep playing Pinocchio.
An edition of Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons
(1984)
Big structures, large processes, huge comparisons
by Charles Tilly
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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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Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons
June 1989, Russell Sage Foundation Publications
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1984, Russell Sage Foundation
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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
Thinkers Face Change
What Was Happening?
Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons
What to Do
2. Four Pernicious Postulates
False Principles
Society Is a Thing Apart
Mental Events Cause Social Behavior
"Social Change" Is a Coherent Phenomenon
Stage Theories
3. Four More Pernicious Postulates
Differentiation Is a Progressive Master Process
Differentiation Versus Integration
Change, Strain, Disorder
Illegitimate Versus Legitimate Force
4. Comparing
Eradicating Pernicious Postulates
Will Total History Save Us?
The Case for Huge (But Not Stupendous) Comparisons
No Safety in Numbers
Ways of Seeing
Looking at Comparisons
5. Individualizing Comparisons
The Will to Individualize
Kings or People?
Cracks in the Foundation
6. Universalizing Comparisons
The Decline of Natural History
Models of Revolution
Theda Skocpol's Revolutions
7. Finding Variation
How and When to Look for Variation
Barrington Moor Compares
8. Encompassing Comparisions
Encompassing the World
Stein Rokkan Encompasses
Rokkan's "Conceptual Maps of Europe"
What's Wrong? What Should We Do About It?
9. Conclusions
The Tasks at Hand
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-167) and index.
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